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. The film on Big Oil and Texas politics, 1935 to 1980, was premiered last Friday on the NTCC campus. For a student film, viewers...
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...
Expertise has its own rewards. In the case of history essays at Northeast Texas Community College, the reward might be something greater than an ‘A’. For the tenth straight year, the history professors of NTCC will feature the Bonnie Spencer Awards...
The Seventeenth Annual McGraw-Hill Poster Contest is set for Friday, May 9th at 9:30 a.m. in the foyer of the Whatley Center for the Performing Arts at Northeast Texas Community College. This contest recognizes and rewards creative student scholarship in Northeast Texas. Area high school seniors, college and university students are welcome to compete...
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)...
For thirteen years running, the scholars of Honors Northeast have premiered previously un-filmed stories of the Texas past. This year, Honors Northeast, and the NTCC Webb Society are drawing their content from a Caldwell-Award-winning essay by the NTCC Texas Heritage National Bank Scholar, Vanessajane Bayna...
For the late Ross Perot, Texans are “thrice blessed.” In the case of NTCC honors students, “Texas” has provided over the years a remarkable spaceport for the launching of students into the realm of regional and national acclaim. Again, this March—more particularly, last Saturday in Houston--the annual meeting of the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) conferred on NTCC scholars about $1,000 on scholarly awards...
In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, the Savage, John, who knows only the works of William Shakespeare, critiques the utter plasticity of a dystopian world order. Shakespeare has become a great touchstone of what the English language can do, and trips to experience the plays of William Shakespeare have greatly enriched the Honors Program...
Albert Einstein once noted that creative people see what others see, they, however, think differently about it. During the past fall semester, two first-semester Honors Scholars in the NTCC honors program, Honors Northeast, conceptualized and thought their way into preeminence, emerging as fall showcases of achievement at NTCC. Both Andrew Higgins and Estefani Garcia exhibited a level of academic excellence equivalent to the top-tier of the NTCC honors program...
