The Northeast Texas Community College Foundation recently received a donation of $10,000 from the Stevenson family of Gilmer. These funds will help the Honors Northeast program continue its legacy of unique special projects, specifically their annual feature-length film. Pictured at the check presentation is (from left): Dr. Andrew Yox, NTCC Honors Director, Wlliam Stevenson, David A. Stevenson, David L. Stevenson, and Dr. Ron Clinton, NTCC President. 

By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director

The Gladys Winkle Family has empowered six NTCC honors students through the years with a special scholarship for excellence in the Humanities that comes in addition to an institutional honors scholarship.  This year’s winner is Mary-Faith Wilson, a star of the HuMusic Seminar last fall before she even entered honors, and this year, one of the top-tier Presidential Scholars of Honors Northeast.

Pictured: The cast and crew that Initiated Film Week: Sarah Dierflinger, Tristan Dierflinger, Skylar Hodson, Luke McCraw, Dr. Andrew Yox—Honors and Webb Society Director, Isabel Tresidder, Andrew Perez, Noah Pettey, Kaden Groda, and Remington Covey.  Photo by Hudson Old and the East Texas Journal.

By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director

Pictured: Student Winners in 2023: Michelle Calderon, Maddy Smith, Morgan Thrapp, and Odalys Adame. Photo courtesy of the NTCC Eagle and Mandy Smith.

By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director

Honors Northeast, the honors program of Northeast Texas Community College announces a call for poems and images that can accent or enliven our sense of the surroundings, people, the culture, and/or the history of Northeast Texas. 

Pictured: Avery Woods, Ariana Tagg, Isabel Tresidder, Rebeca Martinez, and Title V Director, Athena Hayes outside the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin.

By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director

By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director

By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director

Pictured: Dierflinger, Burrows, Hodson, and McCraw

By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director

By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director

Luke McCraw, the winner of the 2023 Dr. Charles Florio Award for leadership, recently completed his fifth public presentation on his film research this semester, in Naples. He is booked for two more presentations.

Skylar Fondren, shown here in 2022 was one of three students in NTCC History to win both a Britt Award for a poster presentation at the Great Plains Honors Council, and a $400 Award for ranking first in an NTCC McGraw Hill Poster Contest. Fondren leveraged attainments like these for a Coca Cola Gold Award on the national level in 2023.

By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director