News & Updates

Luke McCraw, the winner of the 2023 Dr. Charles Florio Award for leadership, recently completed his fifth public presentation on his film research this semester, in Naples. He is booked for two more presentations. NTCC’s Presidential Scholar from Mount Vernon was the lead researcher behind the recent Caldwell-Award-winning film on the traveling preachers of early Texas. According to Honors Director, Dr. Andrew P. Yox, “McCraw’s versatility as a local presenter is enhanced by his remarkable knowledge of theology and Scripture...

The Sixteenth Annual McGraw-Hill Poster Contest is set for Friday, May 10th at 9:30 a.m. in the foyer of the Whatley Center for the Performing Arts at Northeast Texas Community College. This contest recognizes and rewards creative student scholarship in Northeast Texas. Area high school seniors, college and university students are welcome to compete. Prizes range from $100 for fourth place to $400 for first place. Community judges will determine a project’s contribution to scholarship, the persuasiveness of its author, and the quality of the overall presentation. The student posters must reflect new and original research, performed in this past year of 2023-24.

The Northeast Texas Community College Board of Trustees met for its regular March meeting on Tuesday, March 26th. The meeting started off with a special presentation as the board approved naming Dr. Paula Wilhite as Distinguished Professor Emeritus. Board Chairman Chuck Johns read the proclamation and Dr. Ron Clinton, NTCC President, presented Wilhite with a special medallion to commemorate the honor. Distinguished Professor Emeritus is the highest honor bestowed upon retired NTCC faculty...

Who says Easter egg hunts are just for kids? Students, faculty and staff gathered on the plaza this Thursday to enjoy the third-annual EatBetter4Less egg hunt. The event was sponsored by the NTCC CARE Center, Peers Against Tobacco, Cox Logistics and the NTCC Social Work Club...

You have probably heard that Northeast Texas will be directly in the path of totality for the upcoming total solar eclipse on Monday, April 8th. Area cities are preparing for a large influx of visitors and a strain on the local infrastructure. Northeast Texas Community College will be open on April 8th and is planning an eclipse party...

Members of NTCC's PSI Beta Honor Society recently completed Basic Life Support (CPR) training. Russell VanBibber, Interim EMS Program Director at NTCC, provided the instruction. Participants included Skylar Hodson, Neida Perez, and Scott Polanosky...

Since 2008, the honors program of NTCC has published a biannual newsletter. The current issue provides a summary of student success stories in honors last fall: NTCC’s four presenters who made the National Collegiate Honors Council, Neida Perez’s election...

Melody Haruna Mott, NTCC’s assistant honors director, a student mentor, and an advisor for NTCC’s work with Phi Theta Kappa has just won a major award for a graduate-level essay.  Her work on the Texas-Mexico borderlands before the Civil War provides an exclusive comparison with the oft-portrayed United States-Canada borderlands of this period...

The Northeast Texas Community College Patient Care Technician (PCT) Program is currently accepting applications for its upcoming summer cohort. Students can train for an exciting and versatile healthcare career in just 10 weeks...

The spring semester is more than halfway finished and summer will be here before you know it. That's why it's important that you "Surf Into Summer" by signing up for your summer and fall classes! Students can register for Summer and Fall 2024 starting April 8th. Current students can self-enroll online at myeagle.ntcc.edu or schedule a time that is convenient...