Pictured: NTCC’s Honors Northeast is the only community college honors program in the nation to have sent students to the National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC) every year since 2008. Here is the group in San Diego at the NCHC in November of 2025. The NCHC is dominated by university presenters.
By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director
The application deadline for an optimal scholarship in NTCC’s college-wide honors program, Honors Northeast, for the 2026-2027 school year is 1 March. A student may apply directly through the application portal of the honors website: https://www.ntcc.edu/academics/honors-northeast/application,
email-scan an application obtained from a local guidance counselor, or send an application received from Honors Director, Dr. Andrew Yox at ayox@ntcc.edu.
Top high-school seniors, exemplary homeschool students, and ‘A’ students still lacking an extensive curricular buildup at NTCC are especially encouraged to apply. Half of the scholars of Honors Northeast are truly earning-by-learning; their honors scholarships and other awards are greater than their total costs of matriculation. Honors Northeast, the college-wide honors program since 2007, takes ten trips a year that are free to students, and oversees a yearly average of four-five accolades per student, involving regional cash awards for scholarship, special presentation opportunities, publications, and awards for leadership.
The Honors Committee of Northeast Texas Community College determines the scholarship levels of the applicants, and who is admitted.
Since 2010, the scholars of Honors Northeast have won sixty-six national awards, including eleven exclusive Jack-Kent-Cooke-foundation, full-ride transfers now valued at $165,000 each. Privately financed scholarships for honors students at NTCC, such as the Sid Greer Texas Heritage National Bank Scholarship, the James and Elizabeth Whatley Scholarship, the Russell-Mowery Scholarship, the Dr. Jerry Wesson Scholarship, and the Gladys Winkle Scholarship--add to the institutional commitment to student support.
The program has a unique academic culture which fortifies the résumés of each student involved. Its yearly feature-length film series, featuring personalities from the history of Texas, has won six State of Texas Caldwell Awards, besting university-group entries. Thirty-one NTCC scholars have published sole-author essays in state or regional journals based on work performed at NTCC, and there have been many more scholars involved with multiple-author publications since 2010. The program’s alumni, detailed biannually in the newsletter, Alacrity, include physicians, actuaries, engineers, scientists, corporate officers, teachers, nurses, an architect, and a college professor. For more details, see the honors website at www.ntcc.edu/honors You are welcome to contact Dr. Andrew Yox at ayox@ntcc.edu, with any questions.
