A recent visit to Google’s Gemini AI noted that NTCC’s honors program “operates like a hyper-focused, varsity academic team.” This unusual formulation would be closer to the mark if it read “scholarly” rather than “academic,” but it does seem to be a testament to the number of times NTCC students are cited for works of research...
For their performance in honors at NTCC in relation to their peers, two award-winning scholars have won $100 checks. Sophomore Stephanie Hernandez, came out ahead among the sophomores, having made the best performance in the three honors seminars during her time at NTCC. Johnathan Ventura came in first among the first-year students...
Adam Richards was recently named the winner of the 2026 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 2025 graduate of Daingerfield High School has impressed all three of his first-year honors professors as incisive...
Northeast Texas Community College mourns the passing of Dr. Jerry Wesson, a founding administrator and former Vice President of Student Services, who passed away on April 20, 2026, at the age of 85. A memorial service will be held on May 9 at 1:00 p.m. at Tennison Memorial United Methodist Church in Mount Pleasant...
When two aspiring engineers, both from Pittsburg High School, placed first and second in the Northeast Texas Poetry Contest of 2012, then vice president of the college, Dr. Herbert Riedel, was impressed. He had the two read their poems to the subsequent meeting of the NTCC Board of Trustees...
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 eleventh straight year, the history professors of NTCC will feature the Bonnie Spencer Awards...
The Eighteenth Annual McGraw-Hill Poster Contest is set for Friday, May 8th 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...
The Mary Jon, and J.P. Bryan Leadership in Education Award of $5,000 goes out each year to a higher education professor for outstanding attainments in historical pedagogy. University professors have been the usual recipients of this Texas-wide accolade, with educators from Sul Ross, Tarleton State, and the University of Texas at El Paso, winning the most recent awards...
Since 2008, the honors program of NTCC has published a biannual newsletter. The recently released 2026 spring edition can be accessed on the college website. The current issue provides a summary of student success stories at NTCC in honors last fall: the attainment of NTCC’s third string of Portia Gordon awards, Stephanie Hernandez’s election as student leader of the Great Plains Honors Council...
