Texas Pioneer Foundation gives $25,000 for Work4College

The Northeast Texas Community College Foundation recently received a check for $25,000 from the Texas Pioneer Foundation. The funds will be used to support NTCC's innovative Work4College Program. Pictured at the check presentation is (from left) Nita May, NTCC Director of Development, and Dr. Jon McCullough, NTCC Executive Vice President for Advancement.

From NTCC chapter leader to the operating room: PTK alumna witnesses life-saving surgery in Italy

For many pre-med students, the path to medicine is paved with textbooks, lectures, and hypothetical case studies. But for NTCC’s former Phi Theta Kappa Chapter President Alison Majors, that path recently led directly into an operating room in Italy, where she witnessed a routine procedure become a life-saving six-hour medical intervention.

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Work4College students participate in Money Matters financial literacy simulation

Students in the NTCC Work4College Program participated in the annual Money Matters financial literacy simulation on Tuesday, July 7, in the Student Union Building. The interactive event gives students a hands-on look at real-world budgeting and personal finance while helping them prepare for life beyond college.

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CHRISTUS Health Mount Pleasant gives $1,000 for Work4College CPR certifications

CHRISTUS Health Mount Pleasant has donated $1,000 to Northeast Texas Community College to provide CPR certification for all first-year students in the college’s Work4College program. The training, taught by NTCC EMS and Human Performance instructors through the American Heart Association, includes adult, child, and infant CPR, as well as AED use. 

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40th Anniversary Alumni Spotlight: Suzy Murray

NTCC's 40-year story began before the doors officially opened—and Suzy Murray was there from the very beginning. As the daughter of Dr. James Archer and Dr. Patricia Diehm, she remembers helping her family assemble furniture and unpacking chemistry lab equipment in the weeks before the college opened in 1985. 
 
While attending Texas A&M, Suzy took summer classes at NTCC and later worked in the library and tutoring center.
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Free GED, ESL classes start July 14th

Looking to earn your GED or improve your English skills? Northeast Texas Community College's Adult Education program is now enrolling students for free six-week GED and English as a Second Language (ESL) classes beginning July 14. Registration is by appointment only July 6-13 at the Community Resource Center (Old Mount Pleasant High School), located at 105 N. Riddle Street in Mount Pleasant.

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