News & Updates

Aaron Shelby and the Carroll Shelby Foundation recently presented the Northeast Texas Community College Foundation with checks totaling $80,000 to support NTCC’s Shelby Automotive Technology program. One gift for $50,000 will provide scholarships for students in the Shelby program and $30,000 will be used toward the Shelby Restoration Center being built at NTCC.

Northeast Texas Community College Baseball took on Murray State College in single game on Tuesday and took down Murray State 3-2.

Farm based education is seeing a resurgence as a unique experience for families to learn more about where their food comes from.  This is especially true for NTCC Sustainable Market Farm. McCracken first learned of the “farm based education” options at a farm conference in 2019 and became a member of the national organization: Farm Based Education Network https://www.farmbasededucation.org/ to share resources and learn how to incorporate experience based content into the college offerings.

Northeast Texas Community College Athletic Teams will host FREE camps for area youth in the upcoming weeks. During the camps you will get to meet the Eagle players and coaches and receive instruction in that sport. The camps will be after NTCC home games so you will get a chance to watch the athletes in action and then attend camp post game.

 Northeast Texas Community College’s chapter of Phi Theta Kappa, Alpha Mu Chi, attended the Texas Regional Convention in Frisco on March 10-12 and returned with several awards. In addition, the chapter successfully campaigned for the Texas Region President position. The elected representative, Jordan Chapin, will take part in leadership training, public speaking opportunities, and travel throughout the state.    

In the last century, screen compositions by John Williams, Leonard Bernstein, Bernard Herrmann, and others have become the most highly recognized forms of orchestral music. Williams’ compositions for Star Wars, E.T, Jaws and other films have reached an estimated billions of hearers. Moreover music can vitalize a film in such a way as to stir massive degrees of engagement. One thinks of the screeching violins in the shower-murder scene of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, or the terrifying two-note motive of the shark in Jaws.

For the sixth and seventh time in NTCC history, scholars of Honors Northeast have won Britt Poster Awards of the Great Plains Honors Council (GPHC). Aaliyah Avellaneda a first-year student, won in the social science division for first- and second-year students, while Quinones won in the STEM division (Science-Technology-Engineering-and-Medicine) for the same freshman-sophomore category.

A&M-Texarkana at NTCC and Communities In Schools (CIS) are teaming up for a "Fresh and Clean for Spring" drive. They are seeking donations of personal care items to be distributed through the NTCC Eagle Pantry and to area school children served by CIS. 

Student Activities and Multicultural Affairs will host Springfest Week April 5-9. This weeklong event is a great opportunity for students to confirm and celebrate their decision to attend Northeast Texas Community College.

Northeast Texas Community College baseball headed to Paris, Texas on Saturday, March 17 to play games two and three of the three game series with PJC. NTCC would be victorious in game two, 6-4, before losing the final game 10-8.