Northeast Texas Community College recently inducted new members into Psi Beta, the national honor society in psychology for students at two-year colleges. Inductees included (pictured from left): Maritza Quinones of Mount Pleasant, Kortnie Griffin of Pittsburg, and Amie Hurley of Deport. Not pictured was Bryan Zuniga of Mount Pleasant.
The NTCC Continuing Education Department and Knox Shooting Academy will offer Texas License to Carry (LTC) Classes the second Saturday of each month. Upcoming dates are November 14 and December 12. Participants must pre-register at www.knoxshooting.com. For more information you can also visit www.ntcc.edu/continuinged/firearms.
Carolina Alcocer-Salas, the president of NTCC’s award-winning chapter of Phi Theta Kappa, Alpha Mu Chi and the secretary of the student council of Honors Northeast, has won the 2020 Dr. Charles B. Florio Award for Leadership. Alcocer-Salas will receive $200, given by an anonymous donor, in honor of Northeast Texas Community College’s longest-term president.
Since 2008, NTCC’s honors students have presented scholarly posters at the National Collegiate Honors Council. This year the meeting went virtual. But five NTCC scholars both made the cut to present, joining 300 other undergraduate researchers from around the nation, and filed their MP4 video files, posters, and personal statements in time for the virtual conference. Over 90 percent of those exhibiting scholarly posters were university students.
The Northeast Texas Community College Continuing Education Department is pleased to announce that it has entered into a new partnership with Knox Shooting Academy to offer the community a variety of firearms-related training at NTCC's state-of-the-art indoor shooting range & criminal justice facility. Look for classes to include...
Communities In Schools of Northeast Texas is hosting the first annual Believe In Dreams Christmas Store. They are collecting new and gently used items for families to shop at no cost.
Carter BloodCare will be on campus Tuesday, November 3, 2020conducting a blood drive. Please help save a life by donating blood! The blood drive bus will be in the parking lot by the Student Union Building from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Northeast Texas Community College student Carolina Alcocer-Salas, from Winfield, recently received the Walter B Cooper Scholarship at the Phi Theta Kappa Texas Leadership Conference. The conference, held October 16-19 virtually this year, recognized five winners from across the entire state of Texas. The Walter B Cooper Scholarship recognizes outstanding students who are “well-rounded” in the four Hallmarks of Phi Theta Kappa: Scholarship, Leadership, Service and Fellowship.
Northeast Texas Community College rodeo team members Peyton Cooper and Tervyn Armstrong received the Jerald Smith Memorial Scholarship this past month at the Mount Pleasant rodeo. Peyton Cooper is a NTCC sophomore from Telephone, Texas. She participates in breakaway roping, goat tying and barrel racing. Tervyn Armstrong is an NTCC freshman from Brokenbow, Oklahoma and is a bull rider.
Northeast Texas Community College is pleased to announce the hiring of Joshua Freeman as the new Head Coach of the Eagles softball team after a nationwide search. Coach Freeman comes to lead the Eagle Softball program from Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia. Christopher Newport University is a NCAA Division III program where Coach Freeman served as Assistant head coach.
