By: Dr. Andrew Yox, NTCC Honors Director
Outgoing Great Plains Honors Council President, Carrie Pritchett, announced on October 16 the winners of the association’s 2019 election. NTCC’s Courtney Baldwin won the student election. She defeated two upperclassmen, one from Texas Woman’s University and the other from Wichita State. She will become the Executive Council’s Student Representative during the upcoming New Orleans meeting of the National Collegiate Honors Council. Baldwin is the fifth Presidential Scholar from NTCC to receive this honor. NTCC now has won the top student spot, an unprecedented three years in a row. Hannah Dickson of Pittsburg served as Great Plains Honors Council Student Representative in 2019, and Rachel Jordan, of Ore City, in 2018.
The GPHC is an association of 80 honors colleges and programs from Nebraska and Missouri, south to Texas. It is one of the six regional associations connected with the National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC).
Baldwin posed problems for competitors. She was not only one of the six winners of the exclusive Boe Award for her research essay on music last March at the GPHC meeting at the University of Tyler, she also is one of a stellar minority who made the 2019 program of the NCHC in NCHC. She is a recent winner of the Leaders of Promise, a national award, of Phi Theta Kappa. She was the winner of an Eckman Award for excellence in NTCC’s Humusic Seminar in the fall of 2018, and a galvanizing actress and organizer of NTCC’s Caldwell-Award winning film on the African-American opera singer, Barbara Conrad.
“Courtney is an exemplar of commitment, zeal, and integrity” notes the Director of Honors Northeast, Dr. Andrew Yox. She is a spirited presenter who has shared her research on the power of African American music at the World History Association of Texas, the Great Plains Honors Council, and also locally.”
Honors Northeast is now accepting applications for the 2020-21 academic year. The program offers negligible costs, and many opportunities to first- and second-year college students. For more information, contact Dr. Yox at ayox@ntcc.edu.
