Two «Ƶ students were recently named to the 2016 Coca-Cola College Academic Team. Isaac Burris was named a Coca-Cola Gold Scholar and Morgan Capps was named a Coca-Cola Gold Silver Scholar.†The Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation sponsors the Coca-Cola Community College Academic Team program by recognizing 50 Gold, 50 Silver and 50 Bronze Scholars, and providing nearly $200,000 in scholarships annually.
Beginning this spring, history students at «Ƶ will have the opportunity to compete for the first annual Bonnie Spencer Prize. In addition to a grade, students will be able to enter their U.S.
The Honors Program of «Ƶ is accepting applications for the 2016-2017 school year. The deadline to apply is March 1. High School seniors in the top tenth of their class are welcome to apply, as well as «Ƶ students with a 3.5 GPA or higher. Honors Northeast combines challenging seminars of key core curricular classes, with opportunities for advanced mentoring, student travel, interscholastic competition, publications and community service.
The «Ƶ Honors Committee recently promoted Hector Zuniga, an «Ƶ sophomore from Mount Pleasant, from the title of Honors Scholar to Presidential Scholar. Zuniga won the citation for Academic Excellence in last fall?s Biotex Honors Seminar and has maintained a 4.0 GPA at «Ƶ.† The Biotex seminar is composed each fall of entering honors students, and Zuniga won the top rank.†Honors Northeast also admitted two additional Honors Scholars - Kassandra† Martinez and Ryan-Rose Mendoza.
Jim and Paula Archer recently contributed $1,000 to the Honors Northeast program at «Ƶ. A matching gift from IBM brought the total gift to $2,000. †The gift will be used to fund cultural trips for scholars in Honors Northeast.
Since its inception at «Ƶ in 2007, the Honors Program has begun each school year with a ?roundup?
Five sophomore «Ƶ Honors students, in addition to Honors professors Dr. Mary Hearron and Dr. Andrew Yox,†recently†represented «Ƶ at the 50th Anniversary meeting of the National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC) in Chicago. The NCHC is the premier association of honors programs and honors colleges in the nation. «Ƶ is the only community college to have featured scholarly student presenters at the yearly NCHC continuously since 2008.
NCHC committees select proposals to present on the basis of appeal, previous awards, and scholarly promise.
Thanks to the Friends of Honors Northeast, «Ƶ Honors students and professors were able to take their eighth annual cultural fall trip to Dallas/Fort Worth September 18.
