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    Donors of Honors Northeast enable eleventh theatre trip

    Since the summer of 2016, students of Honors Northeast have enjoyed the amenities of free theatre trips to Kilgore, home of the Texas Shakespeare Festival (TSF). As the directors of the TSF have expanded their offerings beyond the summer, so have the donors of Honors here, most notably Jerald and Mary Lou Mowery of Mount Vernon, extended their support for these trips...

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    NTCC scholars present at the National Collegiate Honors Council in San Diego

    On 6-9 November, NTCC Scholars continued their annual tradition of presenting at the meeting of the National Collegiate Honors Council.  Dating back to 1966, the NCHC is the oldest intervarsity organization in the United States dedicated to Honors education.  It has 900-member institutions, mainly in the United States...

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    Stephanie Hernandez wins 2025 GPHC election

    Stephanie Hernandez, the Texas Heritage National Bank Scholar of NTCC, was recently proclaimed the winner of the student election of the Great Plains Honors Council (GPHC).  In a plenary session of the regional association at a meeting of the national organization—the NCHC, in San Diego, 8 November, outgoing GPHC president...

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    Honors Northeast receives generous donation

    The Northeast Texas Community College Foundation recently received a generous donation from Carol Hodges of Hughes Springs. These funds will help the Honors Northeast program continue its legacy of unique special projects, their annual feature-length films...

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    Honors Northeast announces 2025-2026 Scholars

    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 

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    Five Honors Students present at state meeting

    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...

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    NTCC Scholars win Third Set of Portia Gordon Awards

    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...

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    Cypress Bank again contributes laptop for honors student

    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...

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    Honors Northeast takes 36th semester trip

    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...