Pictured: Students of Honors Northeast on Fall Trip, September of 2024
By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director
The application deadline for an optimal scholarship of Honors Northeast for the 2025-2026 school year is 1 March. A student may apply directly through the application portal of the honors website: https://www.ntcc.edu/academics/honors-northeast/application, email-scan an application obtained from a local guidance counselor, or an send an application received from Honors Director, Dr. Andrew Yox at ayox@ntcc.edu.
Top high-school seniors, exemplary homeschool students, and ‘A’ students still lacking an extensive curricular buildup at NTCC are especially encouraged to apply. Half of the scholars of Honors Northeast are truly earning-by-learning; their honors scholarships and other awards are greater than their total costs of matriculation. Honors Northeast, the college-wide honors program since 2007, takes ten trips a year that are free to students, and confers a yearly average of four-five accolades per student, involving cash awards or special presentation opportunities.
The Honors Committee of Northeast Texas Community College determines the scholarship levels of the applicants, and who is admitted.
Since 2010, the scholars of Honors Northeast have won sixty-one national awards, including eleven exclusive Jack-Kent-Cooke-foundation, full-ride $150,000 transfers. Privately financed scholarships for honors students at NTCC, such as the Texas Heritage National Bank Scholarship, the James and Elizabeth Whatley Scholarship, and the Gladys Winkle Scholarship, and others add to the institutional commitment to student support.
The program has a unique academic culture which fortifies the résumés of each student involved. Its yearly feature-length film series, featuring personalities from the history of Northeast Texas, have won six State of Texas Caldwell Awards, besting university-group entries. Twenty-nine NTCC scholars have published essays in state or regional journals, compiled while in their freshman year at NTCC since 2010. The program’s alumni, detailed biannually in the newsletter, Alacrity, include physicians, actuaries, engineers, scientists, corporate officers, teachers, nurses, an architect, and a college professor. For more details, see the honors website at www.ntcc.edu/honors or the QR Code below. You are welcome to contact Dr. Andrew Yox at ayox@ntcc.edu, with any questions.
