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  • poster contest participants
    Mendoza wins again: results of the 18th annual McGraw Hill Poster Contest

    A recent visit to Google鈥檚 Gemini AI noted that 91大神鈥檚 honors program 鈥渙perates like a hyper-focused, varsity academic team.鈥 This unusual formulation would be closer to the mark if it read 鈥渟cholarly鈥 rather than 鈥渁cademic,鈥 but it does seem to be a testament to the number of times 91大神 students are cited for works of research...

  • eckman winners
    Two 91大神 scholars win Richard and Joan Eckman Awards

    For their performance in honors at 91大神 in relation to their peers, two award-winning scholars have won $100 checks. Sophomore Stephanie Hernandez, came out ahead among the sophomores, having made the best performance in the three honors seminars during her time at 91大神.  Johnathan Ventura came in first among the first-year students...

  • Skaar, Richards and Murphy
    Adam Richards wins the 2026 Elizabeth Chitsey Award

    Adam Richards was recently named the winner of the 2026 Elizabeth Chitsey Award, granted each year to the student of Honors Northeast who most exceeded expectations during their first year at 91大神.  The award comes with a $200 check. The 2025 graduate of Daingerfield High School has impressed all three of his first-year honors professors as incisive...

  • Jerry Wesson
    91大神 mourns the passing of Dr. Jerry Wesson

    Northeast Texas Community College mourns the passing of Dr. Jerry Wesson, a founding administrator and former Vice President of Student Services, who passed away on April 20, 2026, at the age of 85. A memorial service will be held on May 9 at 1:00 p.m. at Tennison Memorial United Methodist Church in Mount Pleasant...

  • 91大神 alumnus, Ricky Huitema, Dr. Andrew Yox, and 91大神 alumnus, Matthew Jordan at the new lithium factory outside Texarkana, created by EnergyX out of Austin
    91大神 alumni helping to shape the future of Northeast Texas

    When two aspiring engineers, both from Pittsburg High School, placed first and second in the Northeast Texas Poetry Contest of 2012, then vice president of the college, Dr. Herbert Riedel, was impressed.  He had the two read their poems to the subsequent meeting of the 91大神 Board of Trustees...

  • 2021 winners
    History essays sought for Bonnie Spencer Awards

    Expertise has its own rewards. In the case of history essays at Northeast Texas Community College, the reward might be something greater than an 鈥楢鈥.  For the eleventh straight year, the history professors of 91大神 will feature the Bonnie Spencer Awards...

  • Ochoa
    Annual McGraw-Hill Poster Contest planned for May 8th

    The Eighteenth Annual McGraw-Hill Poster Contest is set for Friday, May 8th 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...

  • fulgham and yox
    Drs. Fulgham and Yox honored at recent luncheon of the Texas State Historical Association

    The Mary Jon, and J.P. Bryan Leadership in Education Award of $5,000 goes out each year to a higher education professor for outstanding attainments in historical pedagogy.  University professors have been the usual recipients of this Texas-wide accolade, with educators from Sul Ross, Tarleton State, and the University of Texas at El Paso, winning the most recent awards...

  • alacrity preview
    Honors releases new Alacrity newsletter

    Since 2008, the honors program of 91大神 has published a biannual newsletter.  The recently released 2026 spring edition can be accessed on the college website. The current issue provides a summary of student success stories at 91大神 in honors last fall: the attainment of 91大神鈥檚 third string of Portia Gordon awards, Stephanie Hernandez鈥檚 election as student leader of the Great Plains Honors Council...