News & Updates

After outstanding performances in the fall semester, Garrett Phillips (left), and Luke McCraw have entered the ranks of Honors Northeast, NTCC’s Honors Program. In addition to their GPA success both Phillips and McCraw, have attained significant academic honors as well. Philips was a winner of a Cunningham Award last semester for his essay on Transcendentalism as a church that never was...

The Northeast Texas Community College Baseball team finally got on the field after a few weather-related cancellations on Sunday afternoon, traveling to Mena, Arkansas to take on Arkansas Rich Mountain Community College. The Eagles picked up two big wins to open the season taking down Rich Mountain 8-4 in game one and 12-2 in game two. After falling behind 1-0 after two innings, the Eagles offense got going in the third inning scoring three runs in the third and three runs in the fourth to jump ahead 6-1...

The Northeast Texas Community College Board of Trustees held its regular January meeting later than usual on Tuesday, Feb. 7th. The meeting was delayed due to scheduling conflicts. All seven board members were present. Dr. Ron Clinton, NTCC President, announced that spring enrollment is tracking flat after the census date. Numbers are very similar to last spring, with about a .5% decrease in head count and 2.1% increase in contact hours. 

The Northeast Texas Community College Rodeo team will travel to Sulphur Springs, Texas on February 3-4 for the Texas A&M University-Commerce Rodeo at the Hopkins County Civic Center.

Phi Theta Kappa Alpha Mu Chi Chapter members recently submitted the final works for their College Project.  The college project focused on sharing diversity around campus. The Alpha Mu Chi chapter decided to team up with our institution’s administration to implement motions to advocate diversity on campus.

NTCC Foundation scholarship applications are officially open for the 2023-2024 academic year. Anyone who plans to attend NTCC for the Fall 2023 semester should consider applying online at www.ntcc.edu/scholarships. Applications are due March 20th. 

This week's installment of Meet the Coaches brings us to Assistant Baseball Coach Connor Anderson: Connor is a graduate of Southwestern Oklahoma State University where he also served as an assistant coach upon his graduation. Coach Anderson came to NTCC from TCS Post Grad Academy in McKinney, Texas.

Those interested in learning more about cutting-edge issues relating to the history of modern Texas are welcome to a free Lunch & Learn at the Mount Pleasant Library, Thursday, 23 February, 12:20-1:20 p.m.  The series of presentations will occur in the library’s community room, with free pizza, salad, drinks, and dessert to all who RSVP with Dr. Andrew Yox at ayox@ntcc.edu by 5 p.m. on 22 February.

The Northeast Texas Community College Eagle Softball team started the Spring Season off by traveling to Marshall, Texas to scrimmage East Texas Baptist University on Friday. The scrimmage was moved up from Saturday to Friday to try to beat the weather.

Experiencing different environments often inspires one to try new ideas.  Thus, for the students of Honors Northeast, a travel tradition begun in 2008 continued as they visited a major city, in this case, Dallas, Friday, 27 September.