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    NTCC scholars maintain enviable record at Texarkana conference

    As in 2023 and 2024, NTCC scholars performed admirably in the Red River Symposium, hosted again by Texas A&M Texarkana, 20 May 2025. It was the third poster and oral-presentation conference chaired by the founding dean of the honors college at Texarkana, Dr. Craig Nakashian.  There were four categories of presenters, and NTCC scholars won $100-first-place-awards in three.  Gracie Gray...

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    Estefani Garcia wins the 2025 Elizabeth Chitsey Award

    Estefani Garcia was recently named the winner of the 2025 Elizabeth Chitsey Award, granted each year to the student of Honors Northeast who most exceeded expectations during their first year at NTCC.  The award comes with a $200 check. The 2024 graduate of Mount Pleasant High School...

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    Thirteenth Honors film released

    NTCC’s Webb-Chapter-Award winning film, featured last fall in San Antonio, and this spring in Houston, is now available to the public through the film site of Honors Northeast at this link. The film on Big Oil and Texas politics, 1935 to 1980, was premiered last Friday on the NTCC campus. For a student film, viewers...

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    Tenth year of Bonnie Spencer Awards

    Expertise has its own rewards. In the case of history essays at Northeast Texas Community College, the reward might be something greater than an ‘A’.  For the tenth straight year, the history professors of NTCC will feature the Bonnie Spencer Awards...

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    Annual McGraw-Hill Poster Contest planned for May 9th

    The Seventeenth Annual McGraw-Hill Poster Contest is set for Friday, May 9th at 9:30 a.m. in the foyer of the Whatley Center for the Performing Arts at Northeast Texas Community College. This contest recognizes and rewards creative student scholarship in Northeast Texas. Area high school seniors, college and university students are welcome to compete...

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    Hernandez wins Britt Award of the Great Plains Honors Council

    For the ninth time since the awards began in 2015, an NTCC scholar has won a $100 Britt Award of the Great Plains Honors Council.  Stephanie Hernandez, a first-year Presidential Scholar from Mount Pleasant, bested all other competitors in the humanities poster division for freshmen and sophomores at the meeting of the Great Plains Honors Council (GPHC)...

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    Honors to host premiere for new film March 28th

    For thirteen years running, the scholars of Honors Northeast have premiered previously un-filmed stories of the Texas past.   This year, Honors Northeast, and the NTCC Webb Society are drawing their content from a Caldwell-Award-winning essay by the NTCC Texas Heritage National Bank Scholar, Vanessajane Bayna...

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    NTCC Scholars Win State Webb, Caldwell Awards

    For the late Ross Perot, Texans are “thrice blessed.” In the case of NTCC honors students, “Texas” has provided over the years a remarkable spaceport for the launching of students into the realm of regional and national acclaim.  Again, this March—more particularly, last Saturday in Houston--the annual meeting of the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) conferred on NTCC scholars about $1,000 on scholarly awards...