News & Updates

The Northeast Texas Community College Foundation is pleased to announce that seven NTCC employees have been awarded funds through the 2022 Whatley Employee Enhancement Grant. The Foundation received 13 outstanding applications. A total of $16,470 was awarded through the grant. 

The Northeast Texas Community College Theatre Department, in collaboration with Firefly Community Theatre, will present the holiday classic, Yes, Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus – A Radio Play, Thursday through Saturday, Nov. 16-18, at 7:30 pm with a Saturday matinee at 2:30 pm. Performances will be held at the Whatley Center for the Performing Arts on the NTCC campus. Tickets can be purchased at whatleycenter.com/tickets.

Quilts by local quilters will hang in the Whatley Center foyer in what is now an annual tradition for the NTCC art department.  For the seventh year, quilters will bring their treasured art to share with the community. The exhibit will run from Friday, Nov. 10th through Wednesday, Nov. 30th...

The Northeast Texas Community College Continuing Education and Corporate Training department facilitated a seven-hour professional development leadership training for UT Health Pittsburg and UT Health Quitman at NTCC's Hanson Sewell Center this week. Thirty participants are engaged in this initiative...

The Northeast Texas Community College Theatre Department, in collaboration with Firefly Community Theatre, will present the holiday classic, Yes, Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus – A Radio Play, Thursday through Saturday, Nov. 16-18, at 7:30 pm with a Saturday matinee at 2:30 pm. Performances will be held at the Whatley Center for the Performing Arts on the NTCC campus. Tickets can be purchased at...

When Americans delve into fiction, cops, and criminals, take center stage. Higher Education, with its semester-schedule routines, grade-melodrama, and plodding creep to graduation seems drab by contrast. But in terms of the American Dream, and individual wellbeing, much rides on higher education. 

The Northeast Texas Community College Board of Trustees met for its regular October meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 31st. All six members were present. The seventh seat on the board is currently vacant, as Dr. Dan McCauley retired from his position in September. McCauley was on the NTCC Board since 1988 and was the longest-serving trustee in the college’s history. 

The Northeast Texas Community College Rodeo Team has been busy the last week with Rodeos on back to back weekends. NTCC hosted the third Rodeo of season October 20-21 at the Mount Pleasant Rodeo Association Arena and then went to McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana October 26-28.

Neida Janet Perez, the James and Elizabeth Whatley Scholar of NTCC, has just won the student election of the Great Plains Honors Council (GPHC).  In a general email to the institutional members, GPHC secretary Ebonie Hill of Oklahoma State communicated the results last Monday.  Perez defeated an upperclassman from Midwestern State University for the top honor. 

Northeast Texas Community College is mourning the loss of one of its own this week as longtime employee Pat Tallant passed away suddenly on Sunday, Oct. 29th 2023. The NTCC Foundation has established a scholarship fund in her memory. Anyone who wishes to contribute to the scholarship can give online at www.ntcc.edu/give or by contacting Nita May, Director of Development, at 903-434-8113 or nmay@ntcc.edu...