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    Winners announced for 17th annual McGraw-Hill Poster Contest

    Dr. John Zubizarreta, a recently retired expert in honor education, once summarized what he believed was the most important insight of his career.  “Conscientious mentoring” he said, was the “key to transformative experiences in education.” This year’s 17th annual McGraw Hill Poster Contest at the Whatley Foyer on 9 May 2025 again attested to the importance of such academic counseling.  All of the fifteen student participants this year received extensive one-on-one professionalization time or correspondence with faculty.  In general, those who performed better, received even more, and most importantly, were willing to make the time to receive more mentoring...

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    Winners of 10th Bonnie Spencer Awards announced

    Three NTCC history students emerged on top in the 2025 Bonnie Spencer competition, for the best student essays in history at NTCC, outside of the honors seminars.  Each will earn a $50 award.  This year, a generous donation to honors by former NTCC Presidential Scholar, Jessica Velazquez, helped round off the funding for this contest, as well as covering another award. Essays could have been entered from any history course taken at the college during the 2024-2025 school year, on campus or online...

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    NTCC scholars maintain enviable record at Texarkana conference

    As in 2023 and 2024, NTCC scholars performed admirably in the Red River Symposium, hosted again by Texas A&M Texarkana, 20 May 2025. It was the third poster and oral-presentation conference chaired by the founding dean of the honors college at Texarkana, Dr. Craig Nakashian.  There were four categories of presenters, and NTCC scholars won $100-first-place-awards in three.  Gracie Gray...

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    Estefani Garcia wins the 2025 Elizabeth Chitsey Award

    Estefani Garcia was recently named the winner of the 2025 Elizabeth Chitsey Award, granted each year to the student of Honors Northeast who most exceeded expectations during their first year at NTCC.  The award comes with a $200 check. The 2024 graduate of Mount Pleasant High School...

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    Thirteenth Honors film released

    NTCC’s Webb-Chapter-Award winning film, featured last fall in San Antonio, and this spring in Houston, is now available to the public through the film site of Honors Northeast at this link. The film on Big Oil and Texas politics, 1935 to 1980, was premiered last Friday on the NTCC campus. For a student film, viewers...

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    Tenth year of Bonnie Spencer Awards

    Expertise has its own rewards. In the case of history essays at Northeast Texas Community College, the reward might be something greater than an ‘A’.  For the tenth straight year, the history professors of NTCC will feature the Bonnie Spencer Awards...

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    Annual McGraw-Hill Poster Contest planned for May 9th

    The Seventeenth Annual McGraw-Hill Poster Contest is set for Friday, May 9th at 9:30 a.m. in the foyer of the Whatley Center for the Performing Arts at Northeast Texas Community College. This contest recognizes and rewards creative student scholarship in Northeast Texas. Area high school seniors, college and university students are welcome to compete...

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    Hernandez wins Britt Award of the Great Plains Honors Council

    For the ninth time since the awards began in 2015, an NTCC scholar has won a $100 Britt Award of the Great Plains Honors Council.  Stephanie Hernandez, a first-year Presidential Scholar from Mount Pleasant, bested all other competitors in the humanities poster division for freshmen and sophomores at the meeting of the Great Plains Honors Council (GPHC)...