The Texas Region of Phi Theta Kappa held its annual Texas Honors Institute as a virtual event July 17 – 19. A total of 428 members gathered for three days of learning and bonding, with guest speakers, seminar group discussions, and interactive virtual fellowship events. The event was planned and coordinated by the Texas Regional leadership team, which includes NTCC’s own Katelyn Kimbrough, who currently serves as the Texas Regional President for Phi Theta Kappa. Kimbrough opened the convention by welcoming all who could attend the virtual event.

Northeast Texas Community College will be closed on Friday, July 3 to observe the Independence Day holiday. Offices will reopen on Monday, July 6. 

The Northeast Texas Community College Foundation recently received $58,000 from the Texas Pioneer Foundation to support the Work4College Program. Dr. Ron Clinton, NTCC President (left), and Dr. Jonathan McCullough, NTCC Executive Vice President for Advancement, are pictured accepting the gift.

For their performance in challenging honors courses at NTCC in relation to their peers, two Presidential Scholars will win $100 checks.  NTCC’s Dr. Jerry Wesson Scholar, Verania Leyva Garcia, who finished this past May, was the sophomore who took all twenty-one hours of requisite honors courses, including some rigorous special courses under Dr. Drew Murphy in chemistry, and ended with the highest GPA.  Katelyn Marie Cox won her 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.

The Division of Social Sciences is pleased to announce Tiffany Carpenter and Lydia Dickson, both of Pittsburg, as the 2019-2020 Outstanding Students in Social Work. 

Each spring from 2008 to 2019, NTCC’s McGraw Hill Poster contest drew friends of the college and top NTCC students to engage in hundreds of scholarly conversations in the foyer of the Whatley Center for the Performing Arts.  This year was different.  The Covid crisis shaped a new criteria, where students had to send videos of their presentations and pictures of their posters to eleven community-and-honors-alumni judges. NTCC leaders of the event wondered whether student isolation, and technical difficulties with this process might hamper the quality of the results.

The Northeast Texas Community College Eagle newspaper staff recently learned it won a record-setting 53 awards from the Texas Intercollegiate Press Association (TIPA).  In addition to Eagle Adviser, Mandy Smith, being named the 2019 Charles “Chuck” Choate Memorial Adviser of the Year, the newspaper staff also brought home the coveted first place General Excellence award for Division 5. This is the most awards The Eagle has received in one year to date.

Northeast Texas Community College is pleased to announce the hiring of Zane Barnes as Head Men’s and Women’s Soccer coach. Barnes has experience with coaching both men and women at the College level, Men’s Club level, and most recently girls at the high school level in Southeast Texas. Coach Barnes relationship with coaches across Texas will be an asset in his ability to recruit quality student athletes to NTCC.

Frankie and Henrietta King and Dr. Ronald and Carolyn Blum recently gave $1,000 to the Northeast Texas Community College Foundation in memory of Buck and Nella Mae King. The Kings are pictured presenting the check to Dr. Jonathan McCullough (right), NTCC Executive Vice President for Advancement. 

Jalyn English was recently named the winner of the 2020 Chitsey Award, granted each year to the student of Honors Northeast who after their first semester, most exceeded expectations.  The award comes with a $200 check.