By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director
Since 2008, the honors program of NTCC has published a biannual newsletter. The recently released 2026 spring edition can be accessed on the college website:
Spring 2026 Alacrity Newsletter
One can also write Honors Director, Dr. Andrew P. Yox, for a real copy at ayox@ntcc.edu.
The current issue provides a summary of student success stories at NTCC in honors last fall: the attainment of NTCC’s third string of Portia Gordon awards, Stephanie Hernandez’s election as student leader of the Great Plains Honors Council, the winners of generous donor-scholarships in honors, the Eckman prize winners, and the student presentations at the meeting of the National Collegiate Honors Council, and NTCC’s successful forays in biological research. The newsletter also contains tributes to recent honors donors, who have enabled a special group dynamic, discussed here as the “incentivization corridor of Honors Northeast.” There is also a section on the completion of the prize-winning 2025 Honors film, Chicano Thermidor, the outcome of the 2025 Northeast Texas Poetry Contest, and a section on “alacritous alumni,” an update on seven former members of Honors Northeast.
