For the nineteenth-straight year in a row, Cypress Bank has presented a high-end laptop for the use of a Northeast Texas Community College honors student. This year’s Cypress Bank Scholar is Geraldine Zermeno, who graduated from Mount Pleasant High School...
Honors Northeast, the honors program of Northeast Texas Community College announces a call for poems and images that can accent or enliven our sense of the surroundings, people, the culture, and/or the history of Northeast Texas...
Since 2008, the honors program of NTCC has published a biannual newsletter. The recently released 2026 summer edition can be accessed by clicking here. One can also write Honors Director, Dr. Andrew P. Yox, for a real copy at ayox@ntcc.edu...
Emma Mendoza’s work on Jovita Idar continues. NTCC’s Gladys Winkle Scholar first won a state Caldwell Award last spring in Irving for her essay on Idar. Then, she won a Britt Poster Award of the Great Plains Honors Council in Kansas City, a conference that included...
Students involved with the 15th original, feature-length film of NTCC’s Honors Northeast this summer had a unique opportunity on 24 July. They viewed one of the all-time great works of classic theatre—Hamlet, by William Shakespeare...
Thanks to another generous gift from David L. Stevenson, as well as other donors, NTCC honors students were able to complete the longest research trip yet. From 25 to 29 May, three entering honors students, and two returning sophomores were able to explore old microfilms, unique local sources, and the spacious stacks of the Mary Couts Burnett Library...
A recent visit to Google’s Gemini AI noted that NTCC’s honors program “operates like a hyper-focused, varsity academic team.” This unusual formulation would be closer to the mark if it read “scholarly” rather than “academic,” but it does seem to be a testament to the number of times NTCC students are cited for works of research...
For their performance in honors at NTCC in relation to their peers, two award-winning scholars have won $100 checks. Sophomore Stephanie Hernandez, came out ahead among the sophomores, having made the best performance in the three honors seminars during her time at NTCC. Johnathan Ventura came in first among the first-year students...
Adam Richards was recently named the winner of the 2026 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 2025 graduate of Daingerfield High School has impressed all three of his first-year honors professors as incisive...
