Honors Northeast, the honors program of Northeast Texas Community College, is accepting entries of poems and images for its annual Northeast Texas Poetry Contest. This is the first year that an image category has been added for original photography and artwork. All submissions should focus on Northeast Texas and enhance or†enliven our sense of the surroundings, people, the culture, and/or the history of this area.

The contest is open to both students and members of the community and there is no cost to enter.

Submitted by Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director

For their performance in challenging honors seminars at NTCC in relation to their peers, two Presidential Scholars have recently won $100 checks.† Texas Heritage National Bank Scholar, Cassidy Watkins, who graduated this past May, was the sophomore who took all three honors seminars at NTCC, and ended with the highest GPA.† Matthew Chambers won his 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.

Submitted by Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director

The Honors Committee of Northeast Texas Community College presented a gift to Dr. Joy Cooper, recently, recognizing her 10 years of service on the college?s Honors Committee.†† During her tenure, NTCC?s honors students have obtained 40 national awards, with an unprecedented 10 national citations gained in the just the last academic year, including two Jack Kent Cookes--one to Student Representative Committee member, Alicia Cantrell--and two Hites Awards.

Honors Director, Dr.

Submitted by Dr. Andrew Yox

Chesney Davis, the 2016-18 Cypress Bank Scholar, and Dr. Andrew P.

Submitted by Dr. Andrew Yox

Faculty mentoring and the promotion of student research at Northeast Texas Community College have dovetailed in recent years with the determination of an alumna to reward top student essays in American history.† Bonnie Spencer, an ICU Nurse at the Titus Regional Medical Center, initiated NTCC?s first History Club in 2002.† She also helped transition its descendant, the NTCC Webb Society, into its film series in 2012.

Submitted by Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director

?Iron sharpens iron.? And each spring for the last decade, scores of animated scholarly conversations at NTCC?s McGraw Hill Poster contest have furnished novel learning experiences.† NTCC students have learned by teaching and the friends of the college who serve as judges, by asking.

These contests have also, thanks to the generosity of McGraw Hill Education, and this year, to a Whatley Enhancement Grant through Jerald and Mary Lou Mowery of Scroggins, produced student awards.

The 2018 issue of†Touchstone,†the collegiate journal of the Texas State Historical Association released this spring, contains two essays by current Northeast Texas Community College Presidential Scholars. This is now the fourth year in a row that Northeast Texas Community College scholars nudged out leading submissions from students in other colleges and universities in Texas to be published in the prestigious collegiate journal.

Alicia Cantrell and Brenda Godoy, students at Northeast Texas Community College, are two of just 47 recipients of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation?s prestigious Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship. This highly competitive national scholarship will provide these two local recipients with up to $40,000 annually for a maximum of three years to complete their bachelor?s degrees.

Nearly 2,500 students applied for the Cooke Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship this year.

Alicia Cantrell, a student at Northeast Texas Community College, has been named a 2018 Coca-Cola Academic Team Gold Scholar and will receive a $1,500 scholarship.

Students are nominated for the academic team by their college administrators. Selection is based on academic achievement, leadership, and engagement in college and community service.

A graduate of Mount Vernon High School, Alicia serves as President of the Phi Theta Kappa chapter on the NTCC campus and is a Presidential Scholar in Honors Northeast.

For the third time, the scholars of Honors Northeast have won two of the six Boe Awards conferred by Great Plains Honors Council (GPHC) in its yearly meeting held at Oklahoma State University.† The GPHC is an association of 80 honors colleges, and programs from the Midwest down to Texas.

Boe awards are bestowed each spring to the six most compelling and creative student works of scholarship submitted to Council judges.†There are three awards for the junior-senior division, and three for freshman-sophomore division.†Although NTCC won two of the six in 2008 and 2010, this is the firs