News & Updates

For the fifteenth-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 the 2022 Hughes Springs Salutatorian, Sydney Annelle Carey. She is the daughter of Danny and Trisha Carey of Hughes Springs. Sydney was a member of the business association, DECA and competed at the state level three times. In April of 2022, the Honors Committee at NTCC voted to offer her a Presidential Scholarship, an upper-tier honors award bestowed to ten students at the college each academic year.

Do you have an interest in traveling abroad? NTCC recently announced a new travel study course to Mexico City. During the May 2023 minimester, Carmen Shurtleff, Instructor of Social Work/Sociology, will lead a group of students on the trip of a lifetime to explore the rich culture and history to be found in Mexico City. 

The Northeast Texas Community College Women’s and Men’s Soccer teams kicked off the 2022 season at home against the LSU-Eunice Bengals. LSU-E Women would mount a comeback and defeat the Eagles 3-2 and the men’s squad for the Bengals won 3-1 on Wednesday. NTCC took an early 1-0 lead in the Women’s game on a goal from Sophomore Erika Trivino (Bogota, Colombia), newcomer Kayla Banta (Nederland, Tx) provided the assist. The Eagles would score again just a few minutes later on a goal by freshmen Katelyn Leal (Tulare, California) who was assisted by fellow freshmen Leticia Heemann (Brazil).

Northeast Texas Community College will be closed on Monday, Sept. 5 in observation of the Labor Day holiday. Offices will return to normal hours and classes will resume as usual on Tuesday, Sept. 6. We hope everyone has a fun and safe long weekend!

Have you always wanted to learn a new language? Now is the time to get started! The Northeast Texas Community College Continuing Education department is planning two language courses this fall. 

Northeast Texas Community College will host a job fair on Tuesday, September 20th from 11 a.m to 1 p.m. in the Student Union Building (SUB). The event is open to the public in addition to NTCC students. Recruiters from local business and industry will be in attendance. The following have confirmed that they will be represented (more will likely be added): 

Paisley McGee from Northeast Texas Community College is one of 207 Phi Theta Kappa members named a 2022 Coca-Cola Leaders of Promise Scholar and will receive a $1,000 scholarship. The Coca-Cola Leaders of Promise Scholarship Program helps new Phi Theta Kappa members defray educational expenses while enrolled in associate degree programs. Scholars are encouraged to assume leadership roles by participating in Society programs and are selected based on scholastic achievement, community service, and leadership potential. More than 1,300 applications were received.

Do you know a practicing phlebotomist that is interested in continuing their education? The NTCC Medical Lab Technology program is now offering a $250 scholarship to any practicing phlebotomist admitted into the MLT program. The faculty met with many of the area Lab Directors of hospital labs to offer an incentive for their phlebotomy staff to go back to college. The need for Lab Techs is still high in the East Texas area and NTCC is glad to support our labs. For information, please call 903-434-8250 or e-mail gbarrett@ntcc.edu. To learn more about NTCC's MLT program, visit www.ntcc.edu/mlt. 

NTCC Athletics wants to welcome all back to the campus for the 2022-2023 year. For those who are new, or returning we wanted to introduce the coaching staff to you. Each week we will send out a bio on each of the coaching staff. This week we are highlighting Justin Hargrove, Athletic Trainer and Assistant Athletic Director. Justin Hargrove joined the National Athletic Trainers Association (NATA) in 1995, and has been a licensed Athletic Trainer since 1998 and obtained his National Athletic Trainers Association Board of Certification in 2000. Justin arrived at Northeast Texas Community College as the Athletic Trainer and Instructor of Human Performance in 2017.  In February of 2019, Justin added the additional duties of Assistant Athletic Director for NTCC. With the completion of his Master’s degree he now he serves as Director of Human Performance in the Associates of Science Human Performance degree program at NTCC. 

The Northeast Texas Community College Soccer programs will kick off the 2022 Regular Season on Wednesday, August 31st at 2:00pm hosting LSU-Eunice from Eunice, Louisiana. Coach Heather Brady will lead the Eagle Women’s team this season who will quickly jump into Conference play on Saturday following the opening game with LSU-Eunice. Brady returns 11 players from last years squad to help lead the six freshmen newcomers.