Jim and Paula Archer recently contributed $1,000 to the Honors Northeast program at Northeast Texas Community College. A matching gift from IBM brought the total gift to $2,000. †The gift will be used to fund cultural trips for scholars in Honors Northeast.

Since its inception at NTCC in 2007, the Honors Program has begun each school year with a ?roundup?

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Five sophomore Northeast Texas Community College Honors students, in addition to Honors professors Dr. Mary Hearron and Dr. Andrew Yox,†recently†represented NTCC at the 50th Anniversary meeting of the National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC) in Chicago. The NCHC is the premier association of honors programs and honors colleges in the nation. NTCC is the only community college to have featured scholarly student presenters at the yearly NCHC continuously since 2008.

NCHC committees select proposals to present on the basis of appeal, previous awards, and scholarly promise.

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Thanks to the Friends of Honors Northeast, Northeast Texas Community College Honors students and professors were able to take their eighth annual cultural fall trip to Dallas/Fort Worth September 18.

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Each year, for the past two years, NTCC honors sophomores have been asked, ?what professor at NTCC best challenged you to go above and beyond your standard performance in learning??† This year the sophomores chose Dr. Mary Hearron.

Each year, for the past two years, immediate honors alumni have been asked, ?what professor at NTCC best prepared you for the standards that you encountered at the university??† This year, Dr.