Rhylie Anderson presents at Western Historical Association

Rhylie Anderson presents at Western Historical Association

Rhylie Anderson participated in the 58th Annual Western Historical Association held at the Hyatt Regency in San Antonio, October 17-20. The conference theme was “Re-Imaging Race and Ethnicity in the West.”

While there, Rhylie presented a poster on her work on African-American leaders in Texas after the Civil War. Her work appeared alongside that of scholars from colleges such as Stanford University and Montana State University.

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Mercedes Collins named Gladys Winkle Memorial Honors/Humanities Scholar

Northeast Texas Community College student Mercedes Collins has been named the first†Gladys Winkle Memorial Honors/Humanities Scholar. This $2,500 scholarship award goes to a top-ranked honors student who is majoring in a field in the humanities. Collins, who graduated third in her class from Daingerfield High School, is a history major and she is putting her interests and talents to use already in the yearly honors film.†She was one of the four student researchers to travel to Austin last May to rehearse the desegregation case of Barbara Conrad in 1957 at the University of Texas?
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Honors Northeast seeks poems, images for annual contest

Honors Northeast, the honors program of Northeast Texas Community College, is accepting entries of poems and images for its annual Northeast Texas Poetry Contest. This is the first year that an image category has been added for original photography and artwork. All submissions should focus on Northeast Texas and enhance or†enliven our sense of the surroundings, people, the culture, and/or the history of this area.


The contest is open to both students and members of the community and there is no cost to enter.

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Two NTCC Honors students receive Eckman Awards

Submitted by Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director

For their performance in challenging honors seminars at NTCC in relation to their peers, two Presidential Scholars have recently won $100 checks.† Texas Heritage National Bank Scholar, Cassidy Watkins, who graduated this past May, was the sophomore who took all three honors seminars at NTCC, and ended with the highest GPA.† Matthew Chambers won his award as an honors freshman, ranking number one in the Stat-Psych Honors Seminar taught this past spring by Dr. Karyn Skaar and Dr. Paula Wilhite.
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Honors Northeast recognizes Dr. Joy Cooper for 10 years of service

Submitted by Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director

The Honors Committee of Northeast Texas Community College presented a gift to Dr. Joy Cooper, recently, recognizing her 10 years of service on the college?s Honors Committee.†† During her tenure, NTCC?s honors students have obtained 40 national awards, with an unprecedented 10 national citations gained in the just the last academic year, including two Jack Kent Cookes--one to Student Representative Committee member, Alicia Cantrell--and two Hites Awards.

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Annual Bonnie Spencer Awards presented

Submitted by Dr. Andrew Yox

Faculty mentoring and the promotion of student research at Northeast Texas Community College have dovetailed in recent years with the determination of an alumna to reward top student essays in American history.† Bonnie Spencer, an ICU Nurse at the Titus Regional Medical Center, initiated NTCC?s first History Club in 2002.† She also helped transition its descendant, the NTCC Webb Society, into its film series in 2012.
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Chambers, Cantrell, Jordan, and Watkins Win Top Rank in McGraw-Hill Poster Contest

Submitted by Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director

?Iron sharpens iron.? And each spring for the last decade, scores of animated scholarly conversations at NTCC?s McGraw Hill Poster contest have furnished novel learning experiences.† NTCC students have learned by teaching and the friends of the college who serve as judges, by asking.

These contests have also, thanks to the generosity of McGraw Hill Education, and this year, to a Whatley Enhancement Grant through Jerald and Mary Lou Mowery of Scroggins, produced student awards.
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Presidential Scholars published in academic journal

The 2018 issue of†Touchstone,†the collegiate journal of the Texas State Historical Association released this spring, contains two essays by current Northeast Texas Community College Presidential Scholars. This is now the fourth year in a row that Northeast Texas Community College scholars nudged out leading submissions from students in other colleges and universities in Texas to be published in the prestigious collegiate journal.
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Two NTCC students win Jack Kent Cooke transfer scholarships

Alicia Cantrell and Brenda Godoy, students at Northeast Texas Community College, are two of just 47 recipients of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation?s prestigious Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship. This highly competitive national scholarship will provide these two local recipients with up to $40,000 annually for a maximum of three years to complete their bachelor?s degrees.

Nearly 2,500 students applied for the Cooke Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship this year.
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