Vanessajane Bayne, a chemical and environmental engineering student from Northeast Texas Community College, is one of 55 students selected as 2025 Udall Scholars and will receive a $7,000 scholarship. The Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation selects recipients of this highly competitive scholarship on the basis of commitment to careers in the environment, leadership potential, record of public service, and academic achievement.

Pictured Winning Students in front of their Sponsoring Professors: Emma Frances Mendoza (Professor Andrew Yox) Kerri Rhodes (Professor Melissa Fulgham) Brooklyn-Grace Scrofani (Associate Professor John Russo)

By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director

Pictured (from left): Wilson, Hamlin, Hernandez, and Mendoza.

By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director

Pictured: first-place winners (from left) Gracie Gray, Mary-Faith Wilson, and Stephanie Hernandez

By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director

By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director

Estefani Garcia was recently named the winner of the 2025 Elizabeth Chitsey Award, granted each year to the student of Honors Northeast who most exceeded expectations during their first year at NTCC.  The award comes with a $200 check.

By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director

NTCC’s Webb-Chapter-Award winning film, featured last fall in San Antonio, and this spring in Houston, is now available to the public through the film site of Honors Northeast at this link. 

By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director

Since 2008, the honors program of NTCC has published a biannual newsletter.  The recently released 2025 spring edition can be accessed by clicking here.

One can also write Honors Director, Dr. Andrew P. Yox, for a real copy at ayox@ntcc.edu.

Pictured are winners with History Faculty: Front Row: Fatima Fuentes, Erika Alvarado, and Davin Whatley:  Back Row: NTCC history professors--Dr. Andrew P. Yox, Dr. Melissa Fulgham and James McGregor.

By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director

By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director

By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director

For the ninth time since the awards began in 2015, an NTCC scholar has won a $100 Britt Award of the Great Plains Honors Council.  Stephanie Hernandez, a first-year Presidential Scholar from Mount Pleasant, bested all other competitors in the humanities poster division for freshmen and sophomores at the meeting of the Great Plains Honors Council (GPHC).  The awards were announced at the closing banquet of the 7-9 March meeting in Denton, Texas.