News & Updates

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...

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...

Northeast Texas Community College will host three spring commencement ceremonies on Saturday, May 17th in the Whatley Center for the Performing Arts. This is the largest class ever at NTCC, with 463 students graduating! Ceremonies will be as follows: 9:00 am Ceremony: Associate of Arts, Associate of Arts in Teaching, and Associate of Science...

The Northeast Texas Community College Eagles Baseball team dropped their opening game of the NJCAA Region 14 Baseball Tournament on Thursday, May 8, falling 4-2 to the Wharton County Junior College Buccaneers. The Eagles now look to bounce back...

The Northeast Texas Community College (NTCC) Board of Trustees held its regular April meeting on May 6th. The meeting was pushed back due to the ongoing presidential search process. All board members were present. The meeting opened with Camp County Judge A.J. Mason swearing in Brian Applegate, of Camp County...

The Northeast Texas Community College Adult Education and Literacy program will hold its General Education Development (GED) commencement ceremony on Thursday, May 15, 2025 at 7 p.m. at the Whatley Center for the Performing Arts. Students who have completed their GED certification during the program year will be honored...

On Thursday, May 8, the Northeast Texas Community College (NTCC) community gathered in the Whatley Center for the Performing Arts to honor the retirement of President Dr. Ron Clinton. The event drew NTCC faculty, staff, students, friends, former employees, and public figures from across the region to celebrate Dr. Clinton’s remarkable legacy. Dr. Clinton has served as president of NTCC since 2017...

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...

The NTCC STEM Club, sponsored by Dr. Drew Murphy and Mr. Mark Ellerman, enjoyed a busy spring semester.  On January 30, the members of the STEM Club served as judges for the Region 8 Science Fair held at the Region 8 Education Service Center on January 30.  There were 216 total entries representing students in grades 4 – 8 and high school from across the region.  There were 80 entries in the Behavioral and Biological Sciences...

Do you like science, enjoy working independently and want to be an integral part of a healthcare team? If so, the NTCC Medical Laboratory Technician (MLT) program might be a good fit for you. Medical laboratory technicians (MLT) are vital healthcare detectives...