Pictured: District III Vice-President, Cade Bennett of NTCC. 

(pictured) Last year’s Student Winner, Katelyn (Cox) Lester.

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.

Megan Folk, Fatima Fuentes, and Skylar Fondren (pictured), students at Northeast Texas Community College, were among the nation’s 207 Phi Theta Kappa members named as 2020 Coca-Cola Leaders of Promise Scholars and will each receive a $1,000 scholarship.  

Northeast Texas Community College’s own Dr. Matthew Lampert, Professor of Philosophy, will give a lecture as part of an international conference this month. The conference is online and all talks are open and viewable by the public (though only people registered for the conference can post comments or attend the Q&A sessions). The conference is Social Ontology 2021 (or SO21), and it's hosted by the International Social Ontology Society (ISOS) and the European Network for Social Ontology (ENSO).

The NTCC Work4College Program celebrated the end of summer with its annual luncheon on Wednesday, Aug. 4. Work4College donors, supervisors, students and their families attended the event in the Student Union Building. This is the eighth year of the program and more than 80 students participated.

The Adult Education Department at Northeast Texas Community College is accepting new and returning students for its GED (General Educational Development) and ESL (English as a Second Language) programs. Those interested in participating in either of these free educational programs should call to make an appointment for registration. While classes are offered in various convenient locations around the area, all registration will be held at the Community Resource Center (formerly MPISD Administration Building) at 105 N. Riddle Street in Mount Pleasant.

Megan Folk, a student from Northeast Texas Community College, has been named a 2021 Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society (PTK) StudyBuddy Scholar and has received a 100 percent discount on either the TEAS or HESI prep courses at StudyBuddy.live. 

Davin Whatley, a student at Northeast Texas Community College in Texas, has been named the 2021 Dr. Mary Hood Texas Region Scholar and will receive a $1,500 scholarship. 

The Dr. Mary Hood Texas Region Scholarship is presented to the Texas applicant with the highest score from Phi Theta Kappa’s spring scholarship application, which helps new Phi Theta Kappa members defray educational expenses while enrolled in associate degree programs.

NTCC is pleased to announce that Anna Ingram, Associate Vice President of Arts and Sciences/Director of Title V, has been nominated for this week’s Summer Shout Out. From her leadership role with faculty to ensuring that NTCC offers high-quality online instruction, Anna fills many roles on campus. 

Congratulations, Anna! We appreciate all that you do to support the mission of NTCC.

Nomination By: Doug Richey

Christi Denney recently presented the Northeast Texas Community College Foundation with $2,000 to support the Nita DeWoody Memorial Scholarship fund. The money was raised through a 5K virtual event that was held last year due to COVID-19.