Honors Northeast, the honors program of ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅ 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.
Adult poetry winners will take home $100 and $50 for first and second place. Full-time student poetry winners for first, second, third, and fourth places will receive $400, $300, $200 and $100 respectively (last year's winner, Mercedes Collins, is pictured above). For images, first place will earn $70, second, $20, and third, $10. Anyone of any age is welcome to enter the contest. Any genre of poem, and at any length, can compete.
The Work4College farm crew has been working hard to safely care for our facility, animals and plants! They will continue their drive-thru lunch and farmer's market for the next two Thursdays (July 30 and August 6). The crew would love to have you stop by and check out their offerings from 10 am to 2 pm. The lunch menu is TBD. Produce, canned items, eggs, and plants available at the market.
In light of rising cases of COVID-19 in the area and in compliance with the latest orders from Texas Governor Greg Abbott, ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅ has made the decision to cancel the in-person summer graduation ceremony originally planned for August 14.
Christi Denney recently presented the ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅ Foundation with $2,000 to support the Nita DeWoody Memorial Scholarship fund. The money was raised through the Jingle Bell Jog (5K) held last December in Pittsburg, which Denney organized in memory of her late sister, DeWoody.
The ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅ Foundation recently received a $20,000 gift from the East Texas Communities Foundation (ETCF). The funds were made available to the College by the ETCF through a planned gift from the estate of the late Burt and Nancy Marans, formerly of Pittsburg.
I would like to take a minute to make you aware of our Eagle Food Pantry located at the Wesley Fellowship building. This program is set up by the Social Work Program to help meet any food insecurity needs of all our currently enrolled ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅ students and their families.
Since 2008, the honors program of ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅ has published a biannual newsletter. The recently released summer of 2020 edition is now available on the college website at or you can click below to download. One can also write Honors Director, Dr. Andrew P. Yox, for a printed copy at ayox@ntcc.edu.
The ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅ Foundation recently announced it received a $470,000 grant from Greater Texas Foundation to support the ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅βs unique Work4College Program. The three-year grant will be used to support scholarships and personnel.
We know that many of you are anxiously awaiting news about how things will look this fall at ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅. We are pleased to report that ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅ plans to resume face-to-face classes for the fall 2020 semester. We will do so with the health and safety of our campus community as the top priority. As we all know, the COVID-19 situation is rapidly changing and we remain prepared to adapt as necessary to provide personal, dynamic learning experiences empowering students to succeed.
Below, you will find a summary of some of the significant decisions we have made for the fall:
The ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅ Adult Education Program is offering a free Computer Literacy virtual class beginning July 21. The course, which will be held fully online, will meet Tuesdays and Thursdays from July 21 to August 13 from 5:30-8:30 p.m.
