For over a decade, the students of the “BioTex” honors seminar at NTCC have experienced a November “email shootout.” This is something like a cross between an ongoing basketball game with scores changing in real time, and a fast-paced, scholarly-poetic thinkathon. The course challenges students to conceptualize...
Adam Richards, the Bill Glass Scholar of NTCC, was recently proclaimed the winner of the student election of the Great Plains Honors Council (GPHC). GPHC president, Ebonie Hill, of Oklahoma State communicated the results in an emailed announcement to members of the association on 26 October 2026. Richards will be the one student from...
Honors Northeast, the Northeast Texas Community College Honors Program, is pleased to announce its Honors Students for the 2026-2027 school year. This includes five Presidential Scholars and twelve Honors Scholars. The NTCC Board of Trustees established Honors Northeast in the spring of 2007. Geared to attract top high school graduates and college students...
Jennifer Gardzina, the wife of NTCC’s Director of Plant Services, Jeff, has helped honors students on many occasions as a public service. In the previous two years she has helped with filming, driving, counseling, and encouraging some of NTCC’s most creative students. In addition, she now had devoted the lessons learned...
As in 2022, and 2024, and 2025 scholars of Honors Northeast have won the top student prize of the East Texas Historical Association (ETHA). For their panel, “Ironies of Modern Texas History: Architecture, Iconography, and Health,” four NTCC sophomores took home $200 apiece...
Leadership has been an intrinsic aspect of honors education not only as it benefits the recipient, but the whole honors experience. Students can lead in classroom erudition, elevating the vocabulary...
For the 38th time, thanks to honors donors, NTCC honors students were able to take a free, day-trip to a big city—in this case, Fort Worth. Eleven honors students, honors director, Dr. Andrew Yox, and Cade Bennett, NTCC Honors Coordinator, left campus at 7:15 a.m., 25 September in two vans...
The nineteenth annual Northeast Texas Poetry Reading occurred on 4 September in the foyer of the Whatley Center for the Performing Arts. Again, student poetry prizes, in the amounts of $400, $300, $200, and $100, were bestowed thanks to the generosity of the donors of Honors Northeast...
Thanks to the generosity of the donors of Honors Northeast, the Honors Program and Webb Society of NTCC were able to award students for the first time for their acting. For the past fifteen summers, students of these two organizations have researched...
