The two top winners of the 2022 McGraw Hill Poster Contest at the Whatley Foyer in May received a free trip, ticket and lunch, 28 July, to the Texas Shakespeare Festival in Kilgore, Texas. Together with Honors Director Dr. Andrew Yox, Skylar Fondren, and Victor Diaz saw Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew in an afternoon production.

Northeast Texas Community College Women’s Soccer athlete and student Athletic Trainer Zoe Craven has been named the 2021-2022 Longview Orthopaedic Clinic Collegiate Athlete of the Year. As a previous winner of Athlete of the week she was selected as Collegiate Athlete of the year after a vote that was open to the public. Doug Bloyd, Athletic Trainer at Longview Orthopaedic Clinic said, “Over 15,000 Votes were cast in the Facebook voting poll this year.”

Brenda Godoy, a Presidential Scholar at NTCC from 2016 to 2018, has just won her second $150,000 Jack Kent Cooke Scholarship, this one for graduate school.  The former Titus County Community Health Worker (CHW), and Mount Pleasant High School salutatorian will attend Medical School, in Fort Worth this fall.

The NTCC Continuing Education and Corporate Training program will host two free Senior Adult Legal Workshops on Friday, May 20 and Friday, Jun 17. Both events will be held in the NTCC Community Room (Humanities building) from 9 a.m. to noon. 

The program is designed for individuals 55 and older, or anyone who wants to learn more about estate planning, wills and advanced directives. The speaker will be Wyatt Hinson, Attorney at Law. Different content will be presented at each session, so you are encouraged to sign up for both dates. 

Honors Northeast recently deposited $300 for its first-place tie with Jacksonville College for the annual Group Caldwell Award of Texas. This was the fourth time NTCC honors students have spearheaded a project involving original research in Texas History that has won top honors among all competing university and collegiate groups in the state.

The Bellamy Brothers will perform at the Whatley Center for the Performing Arts on the campus of Northeast Texas on Friday, April 29 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are very limited, so get yours today at www.whatleycenter.com or by calling the box office at 903-434-8181. Seats are $30 for adults and $10 for students. The concert is sponsored by Guaranty Bank and Trust.  

The Fourteenth Annual McGraw-Hill Poster Contest is set for Friday, May 6th at 9:30 a.m. in the foyer of the Whatley Center for the Performing Arts at Northeast Texas Community College. This contest recognizes and rewards creative student scholarship in Northeast Texas. Area high school seniors, college and university students are welcome to compete. Prizes range from $100 for fourth place to $400 for first place. Community judges will determine a project’s contribution to scholarship, the persuasiveness of its author, and the quality of the overall presentation. The student posters must reflect new and original research, performed in this past year of 2021-22.

Northeast Texas Community College was well represented at the 63rd Annual Council for the Study of Community Colleges (CSCC) Conference in Tempe, Arizona. Faculty members Jim Ward and Carmen Shurtleff both presented at the conference on different topics. 

Medical Assistants are a vital part of healthcare as they work alongside physicians, mainly in outpatient or ambulatory care facilities, such as medical offices and clinics. Medical assistants are​ cross-trained to perform administrative and clinical duties making them the heart of healthcare. 

NTCC's innovative Work4College program is currently accepting applications for summer 2022. Anyone who will have completed at least their sophomore year of high school this May who plans to attend NTCC is eligible. Current students who plan to continue their studies at NTCC are encouraged to apply.