News & Updates

Northeast Texas Community College’s chapter of Phi Theta Kappa, Alpha Mu Chi, attended the Texas Regional Convention virtually this past weekend and returned with several awards. In addition, the chapter successfully campaigned for the Texas Region District III Vice President position. The elected representative, Cade Bennett, will take part in leadership training, public speaking opportunities, and travel throughout the state.   

Daisy Bates, Admissions application Coordinator of Transfer Student Programs at Texas A&M University-Texarkana, will be assisting students in the Career and transfer center (BT 111B) on March 23 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. she help with applications, take transcripts and waive the $30 application fee. The event is hosted by the NTCC Career and Transfer Center. 

Northeast Texas Community College will be closed March 15-19 for Spring Break. While offices will be closed, there is still time to sign up for 2nd 8-week spring classes online at www.ntcc.edu/registernow. Classes for that session begin Monday, March 22. 

During Feb 10-17, 2021, two major storms had a widespread impact across the US and especially in the state of Texas.  Governor Greg Abbot declared a state of emergency for all of Texas’ 254 counties in response to the severe winter weather impacting Texas.  Mass power outages, frozen and broken water lines, water and food shortages, and persistent sub-freezing weather conditions combined to create a crisis that was unprecedented in its scope and severity.

Northeast Texas Community College took on Carl Albert College on Tuesday in a non-conference game on a very windy afternoon. The Vikings from Carl Albert would defeat NTCC in a back and forth game by a score of 6-4.

Northeast Texas Community College Softball traveled to Wilburton, Oklahoma to take on Eastern Oklahoma State College in a two-game series. NTCC would take game one 8-2 and game two 14-9. The series sweep brings the NTCC win streak to five straight games as they head into conference play next week.

Since 2008, the honors program of NTCC has published a biannual newsletter. The recently released 2021 January edition is now available on the college website: https://www.ntcc.edu/academics/honors-northeast/newsletters. 

The Northeast Texas Community College Honors Program will host a premiere of its ninth feature-length student film on Friday, March 26 at 7 p.m. in the Community Room (Humanities 129). This year’s film, PILGRIMage, a Story aBOut Northeast Texas, examines the story of Bo Pilgrim, the controversial founder of Pilgrim’s

The Northeast Texas Community College Eagles Softball team will host a free softball camp on April 3. The event, which is open to kids of all ages, will be held at the NTCC softball field at 5:30 p.m. after their home game against Paris Junior College. 

Hilda Rodriguez was recently named the winner of the 2021 Chitsey Award, granted each year to the student of Honors Northeast who after their first semester, most exceeded expectations.  The award comes with a $200 check.