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    Garcia and Higgins promoted to Presidential Scholar

    Albert Einstein once noted that creative people see what others see, they, however, think differently about it. During the past fall semester, two first-semester Honors Scholars in the NTCC honors program, Honors Northeast, conceptualized and thought their way into preeminence, emerging as fall showcases of achievement at NTCC.  Both Andrew Higgins and Estefani Garcia exhibited a level of academic excellence equivalent to the top-tier of the NTCC honors program...

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    Honors students enjoy 35th semester trip

    For the 35th time, thanks to honors donors such as Drs. Jim and Paula Archer, NTCC honors students were able to take a free, day-trip to a big city—in this case, Dallas. Eleven students and honors director, Dr. Andrew Yox, left campus at 7:30 a.m., 31 January in the Work4College van...

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    Two Presidential Scholars win $100 Eckman Awards

    For their performance in the fall of 2024 in honors at NTCC in relation to their peers, two Presidential Scholars have won $100 checks.  Sophomore Mary-Faith Wilson, the college’s Gladys Winkle Scholar, came out ahead among the scholars enrolled in the BioTex fall honors seminar. Among the students in the HuMusic Seminar, Andrew Thomas Higgins won the honor among those students taking both sides of that seminar...

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    Isabel Tresidder wins seventh Dr. Charles B. Florio Leadership Award

    For NTCC Honors Students, there are three major ways in which leadership not only benefits the recipient, but the whole honors experience.  Students can lead in classroom erudition.  They can lead in scholarship, generally producing an essay or project that addresses major issues or problems.  Finally, they can lead in collective activities that provide services for the community and/or accolades for the larger group. During her first semester in honors last fall...

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    NTCC Scholars Present Lunch & Learn

    Those interested in learning more about cutting-edge issues relating to the history of Texas are welcome to a free Lunch & Learn at the Mount Pleasant Public Library, 601 North Madison, Friday, 7 February, 12:15-1:15 p.m. A sequence of four presentations—all relating to our modern, regional history...

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    NTCC scholars present at the NCHC in Kansas City

    At one station, a perfectly groomed and uniformed senior from the Air Force Academy in Colorado explained his theory of how drones could be used to detect the status of unexploded ordnance by an airfield. At another, a very fluent young woman from St. Mary’s University in San Antonio pointed to a boldly colored poster that defended the theories of Gloria Anzaldua...

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    Honors Northeast announces 2024-2025 Scholars

    Honors Northeast, the Northeast Texas Community College Honors Program, is pleased to announce its Honors Students for the 2024-2025 school year. This includes five Presidential Scholars and twenty-three Honors Scholars. The NTCC Board of Trustees established Honors Northeast in the spring of 2007...

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    Trailer released for upcoming NTCC Honors/Webb film

    The trailer of the film of Honors Northeast and the NTCC Webb Society on oil and politics is now in the public domain. It features several honors students in key roles, the musical artistry of Kenny Goodson of Hughes Springs, and the picture editing of a first-year honors student from Mount Pleasant, Yahir Garcia...

 

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