Each year, for the past two years, NTCC honors sophomores have been asked, ?what professor at NTCC best challenged you to go above and beyond your standard performance in learning??† This year the sophomores chose Dr. Mary Hearron.
Each year, for the past two years, immediate honors alumni have been asked, ?what professor at NTCC best prepared you for the standards that you encountered at the university??† This year, Dr. Mary Hearron?s name came to the top of the list in this category as well!
Matthew Jordan, who won a Jack Kent Cooke Scholarship while at NTCC as a Presidential Scholar, enabling him to have a free ride at Texas Tech, noted that†Dr. Hearron definitely went ?above and beyond? in instilling standards. ?The course she taught was one of the more difficult of the honors series. An A in Biology was most definitely earned. . . . Yet she always made time to assist her students. Dr. Hearron truly established herself as a challenging, but nurturing mentor for every honors student that proceeded through the program.?
Presidential Scholar, Tyler Reynolds, who made a formal presentation of the sophomores? choice to Dr. Hearron at the Honors annual Thank-You dinner in March, noted that his sophomore class presented special challenges to Dr. Hearron, but that she patiently worked with the class, and helped inspire a better work ethic in every student.
Dr. Hearron, in addition to administrative duties in recent years, and moving over to cover chemistry as well as biology courses, has been a member of an inner circle of faculty who have written seminal evaluations in various national competitions.† Her students in the last four years have won top national awards including the Jack Kent Cooke, Terry, Guistwhite, Coca-Cola (Phi Theta Kappa), and Hites Scholarships.
