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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...

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    Annual Honors Northeast Roundup held at Eagle’s Nest

    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...

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    Students publish work in state journal

    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...

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    Northeast Texas composer, Kenny Goodson, lends talent to latest Honors Northeast film

    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...

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    Honors releases new Alacrity newsletter

    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...

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    Speakers announced for 18th annual Northeast Texas Poetry Reading

    The annual Northeast Texas Poetry Reading on Friday, 5 September at 11 AM will again occur at the Foyer of the Whatley Center for the Performing Arts on the Northeast Texas Community College campus.  The public is invited for this free event, the eighteenth of its kind in as many years.  As before, the Reading will feature the six readings of the highest ranked poems of the adult and student divisions...

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    Honors Students and NTCC Webb Society film new Texas saga

    In a spin-off from Presidential Scholar, Stephanie Hernandez’s prize-winning scholarship last year, Honors Northeast, and the NTCC Webb Society filmed a Mexican-American happening, 4-8 August at NTCC, Titus, Franklin, Marion, and Cass counties.  It is a late-twentieth-century story of the struggle for Mexican American identity.  The film examines two rival art associations...