For their performance in challenging honors courses at NTCC in relation to their peers, two Presidential Scholars will win $100 checks. Neida Perez, a biomed major, won her award as an honors freshman, ranking number one in the Stat-Psych Honors Seminar taught this past spring by Dr. Karyn Skaar and Dr. Paula Wilhite. NTCC’s 2022-2023 James and Elizabeth Whatley Scholar, Victor Diaz, who graduated this past May with his associate degree, was the sophomore who took all six honors seminar courses—not to mention honors calculus, and ended with the highest GPA.
If you are employed in Camp County and would like to get more education or training for your employees, you can take advantage of a matching grant that the Pittsburg Economic Development Corporation (PEDC) granted to Northeast Texas Community College. The grant will fund 50% of the tuition for any classes NTCC offers for you to help improve your working skill sets.
Northeast Texas Community College will be closed on Monday, May 29th in observance of Memorial Day. Offices will resume regular business hours on Tuesday, May 30th. Students can still apply and register online for summer and fall 2023 classes even when the college is closed.
Northeast Texas Community College celebrated its May 2023 commencement with two ceremonies on Saturday, May 13th. There were 340 candidates for graduation. The 9 a.m. ceremony honored those receiving Associate of Arts, Associate of Science, Associate of Arts in Teaching degrees and dual credit certificates. There were 130 students in attendance to receive their diploma. A total of 132 Associate of Applied Science degrees and Certificates of Competency were presented at the 11 a.m. ceremony.
Three NTCC history students emerged on top in the 2023 Bonnie Spencer competition, for the best student essays in history, outside of the honors seminars. Essays could have been entered from any other history course from any history instructor, full-time or part-time, on campus or off, such as with embedded dual history classes. Andrew Higgins, a dual enrollment student from Mount Vernon High School won first place...
Every semester full-time and associate faculty in NTCC’s Division of Math, Physics and Engineering can select an outstanding student, who is exceptional in some way. For the Spring 2023 semester, Dr. Doug Richey nominated Jenna Renae Lukehart from Mount Pleasant as outstanding in College Algebra (Fall 2022) and Statistics (Spring 2023).
Northeast Texas Community College is currently enrolling for its upcoming Professional Driving Academy (CDL training). New classes begin monthly. This is a great opportunity for anyone interested in training for a lucrative new career in just one month.
Do you plan to attend NTCC this fall? If so, you don’t want to miss EagleGanza! It is an action-packed half-day event designed to help students prepare for their upcoming college experience. EagleGanza is specifically targeted for incoming freshmen and those thinking about attending NTCC.
The NTCC Continuing Education Department recently announced the class list for the 2023 Discovery Kids College this week. Registration is now open! This year's options include:
On 5 May, for the fifteenth time, community judges and NTCC students converged on the foyer of the Whatley Center for the Performing Arts at NTCC for an annual McGraw-Hill Poster Contest. The scholarly competition was enabled again by generous grants, from Beverly Kelley of Mount Vernon, and the McGraw-Hill Education Corporation—through the special work of Bill Welsh, and Casey Slaght who work in the corporate office in Dubuque, Iowa.
