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 sixth year, quilters will bring their treasured art to share with the community. The exhibit will run from Friday, Nov. 11th through Wednesday, Nov. 20th.  A reception is scheduled for Wednesday, Nov. 16th at 12:30 p.m. in the Whatley Center foyer, and refreshments will be served.   

It is critical that the campus community is quickly informed in the event of an emergency at NTCC. It is important that everyone is made aware of what to do and how to make sure they receive emergency alerts.  We will be conducting a test of our alert system at 9:45 a.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 9th.

Northeast Texas Community College held its 34th annual Scare Affair Halloween event on Monday, Oct. 31st. The event was originally scheduled for the previous Saturday, but was moved due to weather concerns. Scare Affair is the college's top fundraising event of the year for student organizations. More than $7,500 was raised by 14 student clubs. 

The CARE Center and Student Success will host a week-long national celebration for First Generation Students November 7th-10th. A First-Generation student is an individual whose parents did not complete a 4-year college degree. Many NTCC students are the first in their family to attend college and this is a special week to support and celebrate them!

On Thursday, October 20, 2022, 11 NTCC students were inducted into Psi Beta, the national honor society in psychology for community colleges. The candlelight Induction was presided over by chapter officers Jian Torres, Didier Serrano, and Nataly Morales. The speaker for the evening, Amanda Stevens, a doctoral candidate in the Educational Psychology program at Texas A&M University-Commerce, presented her original research on metacognition.

Inductees are pictured as follows:

By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director

Skylar Reese Fondren, the Texas Heritage National Bank Scholar of NTCC, has just won the student election of the Great Plains Honors Council (GPHC). She will be the one student from eighty honors programs and colleges, from Nebraska to Texas, to join the other professorial members of the GPHC Executive Council.

By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director

John Harmon, a doctoral candidate at Lipscomb University, will be presenting recent research relative to the reigns of Israel’s greatest Old Testament kings. The lecture will occur in Humanities 101 from 12:25 to 1:20 PM on Thursday, 10 November. The lecture is sponsored by Honors Northeast. Those who plan to attend in advance are welcome to notify Honors Director, Dr. Andrew Yox at ayox@ntcc.edu for a free lunch.

Pictured: Garrett Fields and Nathan Gwin

By: Justin Hargrove, Assistant Athletic Director

The Northeast Texas Community College Rodeo team made the trek down to South Louisiana for the McNeese State University Rodeo in Lake Charles, Louisiana October 28th-29th.

     The Northeast Texas Community College Board of Trustees met for its regular October meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 25th.