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...
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...
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...
Three NTCC students, all involved in this summer’s honors film project, witnessed Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night in an afternoon production on 24 July. They traveled to the annual Texas Shakespeare Festival in Kilgore. Donors of Honors Northeast and of the college, Jerald and Mary Lou Mowery made the excursion possible. The students drove from NTCC and back with Dr. Andrew Yox, honors director...
Honors Northeast, the honors program of Northeast Texas Community College announces a call for poems and images that can accent or enliven our sense of the surroundings, people, the culture, and/or the history of Northeast Texas. Adult poetry winners will take home $100 and $50 for first and second place...
For their performance in the spring of 2025 in honors at NTCC in relation to their peers, two Presidential Scholars won $100 checks. Sophomore Mary Faith Wilson, the college’s Gladys Winkle Scholar, came out ahead among the sophomores, scoring the highest among the two-year cohort in the McGraw Hill Poster contest, and concluding with a perfect GPA...
Stephanie Hernandez’s state Caldwell-Award winning essay on Tejano murals may not only result in a publication. The NTCC Presidential Scholar now awaiting her sophomore year may see her work one day as a cinematic premiere. This past May, four upcoming scholars of Honors Northeast—Bree Fite, Emma Mendoza, Litzy Flores, and Adam Richards, and Honors Director, Dr. Andrew Yox, journeyed to San Antonio...
