Honors Northeast, the Northeast Texas Community College Honors Program, is pleased to announce its Honors Students for the 2025-2026 school year. This includes seven Presidential Scholars and fifteen Honors Scholars. The NTCC Board of Trustees established Honors Northeast in the spring of
On 10 October, five scholars of Honors Northeast presented work at the annual fall meeting of the Walter Prescott Webb Society at the Sheraton Hotel of Georgetown, Texas. The “Webb” is the collegiate auxiliary of the Texas State Historical Association. Emma Mendoza, Ian Mares, Hailey Randall, José Fuentes, and Johnathan Ventura...
As in 2022, and 2024, scholars of Honors Northeast have won the top student prize of the East Texas Historical Association (ETHA). For their panel, “Areas where the Amnesia of Modern Texas is more Acute,” four NTCC sophomores took home $200 apiece. They had the best student panel at the association’s plenary fall conference. The meeting occurred in Nacogdoches, 2-4 October at the Fredonia Hotel...
For the eighteenth-straight year in a row, Cypress Bank has presented a high-end laptop for the use of Northeast Texas Community College honors students. This year’s Cypress Bank Scholar is Jasmine Landaverde. Landaverde, who graduated from Mount Pleasant High School last spring...
For the 36th time, thanks to honors donors such as Drs. Jim and Paula Archer, NTCC honors students were able to take a free, cultural day-trip to a big city. Thirteen students and two NTCC staff drivers left campus at 7:00 a.m., 19 September for a whirlwind experience that began with free breakfasts at Starbucks in Greenville, and ended with improv comedy with the Four Day Weekend troupe in Dallas...
The patrons of Honors Northeast--the honors program at NTCC--have shown time and again how generous the college’s community can be. They have not only financed student trips, generous scholarships, program laptops, yearly poetry- and poster-award contests, and summer film initiatives, they have also financed nineteen special dinners...
Two former NTCC Presidential Scholars recently published award-winning scholarship that was developed and accepted for publication while at NTCC. Neida Perez, now at UT Tyler, published her Caldwell-Award winning study on the Texas war against pathogens, and Aubrey Watkins, now at East Texas A&M, published her Caldwell-Award winning work on the rise of the Cowboy Church...
The former Supreme Court Justice, Sandra Day O’Connor, once noted after she stepped down from the nation’s highest court in 2006 that she would have liked to have “retired from [her] retirement.” Alas, retirement can have many meanings. In the case of NTCC’s former, Director of Computer Services, Kenny Goodson, retirement in a sense did not end a career as much as synthesize two paths he had pursued in life...
Honors Northeast, the honors program of Northeast Texas Community College, has released the summer 2025 edition of its Alacrity newsletter. The latest issue highlights accomplishments of current students and alumni...
