News & Updates

Join us in Celebrating Multicultural and Career Awareness Week at the Northeast Texas Community College campus from September 21-25, 2020, as we unite in shaping our community! 

Carter BloodCare will be on campus Tuesday, September 8, 2020 conducting a blood drive. Please help save a life by donating blood! The blood drive bus will be located in the parking lot at the edge of the sidewalk by the Student Union Building from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

The Northeast Texas Community College (NTCC) Athletic Training Department has added two new student athletic trainers to the program. Newcomers Marissa Nolan (Gilmer High School) and Alexis Quezada (Mount Pleasant High School) will join sophomore Erica Austin (Texarkana Pleasant Grove High School) and Head Athletic Trainer Justin Hargrove in caring for the Eagle Athletes this year.

Presidential Scholar, Katelyn (Cox) Lester, has won the third $500 Dr. Jerry Wesson Scholarship, for academic excellence in honors.  This honor was established in 2018 by Scott Wesson, a Colorado businessman, on behalf of his father-- long-term NTCC Vice President, and booster, Dr. Jerry Wesson.

Northeast Texas Community College will be closed on Monday, Sept. 7 in observance of the Labor Day holiday. Classes and office hours will resume on Tuesday, Sept. 8. We hope everyone has a great long weekend and celebrates the holiday safely. 

The Northeast Texas Community College Foundation recently received a check for $1,000 from Randy and Cristy Nolen of Mount Pleasant. The gift will be used to provide a scholarship to a student majoring in Human Performance at NTCC.

For the 13th straight year since 2008, Cypress Bank has presented a high-end MacBook laptop for the use of Northeast Texas Community College honors students. This year’s Cypress Bank Scholar is Cade Bennett.

Because of his combination of academic excellence, leadership, and public service, Jalyn English has become the premiere winner of the James and Elizabeth Whatley Honors Endowed Scholarship.  This $2,500 scholarship, to be applied to the coming academic year at NTCC, and available for distinguished NTCC Presidential Scholar sophomores in the years to come, is the result of a $50,000 gift given to Honors Northeast, the college’s honors program, when it started in 2007.

Northeast Texas Community College is pleased to announce that it is now offering a Professional Driving Academy (CDL training) through the department of Continuing Education and Corporate Training. New classes will begin September 8, October 5 and November 2. 

The Northeast Texas Community College Foundation recently received a $100,000 anonymous donation. The gift was designated to establish an endowed scholarship for NTCC’s Work4College Scholarship.