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Pictured: Monse Rivero, Vice President of the Honors Student Council, at the 2023 Roundup.

By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director

Pictured: 2023 Student Winners of the Northeast Texas Poetry Contest, First through Fourth, Michelle Calderon, Maddy Smith, Morgan Thrapp, and Odalys Adame. Photo courtesy of Mandy Smith and the Eagle.

By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director

Odes to the Majestic and Natural:  An Upbeat Objectivism Returns to the Northeast Texas Poetry Reading

Photo Courtesy of Hudson Old, and the East Texas Journal.  Pictured from Left to Right: Victoria Matiz, Joel Reyes, Honors Director--Dr. Andrew Yox, Kaden Groda, Allen Herald, Hannah Goldblum, Luke McCraw, Halea Ledezma, Rev. Dan Hoke, Morgan Thrapp, Sam Pollan, Alison Majors, Demi Reyes, Garrett Phillips, Andrea Reyes, Aubrey Watkins, Monse Rivero, Michael Rodriguez, Raul Leija, Assistant Honors Director—Melody Mott, Michelle Calderon, Skylar Hodson.

By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director

Pictured: Cypress Bank Vice President, Josh Cato, Presidential Scholar, Amy Vazquez, and ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ Honors Director--Dr. Andrew Yox.

By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director

By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director

By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director

In her first year at ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ, Neida Perez became a standout among standouts.  As a top-ranked Presidential Scholar, she has earned this fall one of the two most lucrative foundation scholarships granted through the college’s honors program. She will be the college’s James and Elizabeth Whatley Scholar for 2023-24.

This scholarship came into being as part of a record-breaking 1.7 million-dollar gift to ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ in 2007 by the Whatley family.

Pictured: student winners in 2019: Jacob Lambie, Cade Armstrong, Karla Fuentes, and Mercedes Collins. Photo courtesy of the ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ Eagle and Mandy Smith.

By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director

Honors Northeast, the honors program of ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ 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.

Pictured: Aubrey Watkins, Hannah Goldblum, Michelle Calderon, Raul Leija, and Allen Herald with camcorder

By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director

Members of Honors Northeast and the ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ Webb Society are in the midst of an intense film week that has taken them, in 100-degree weather, from Lake Bob Sandlin to Lake Nacogdoches.  They are working on their 12th feature-length film on Texas history legends.  This year’s script is about the traveling preachers of early Texas.

Michelle Calderon and Aubrey Watkins were recently awarded scholarships at the Phi Theta Kappa Texas Honors Institute. The PTK convention concluded on July 16 and scholarships were awarded. Those who have received the STAR scholarships from Phi Theta Kappa demonstrated academic and leadership promise. Phi Theta Kappa members from any community college in the state of Texas are eligible for the award.

Since 2008, the honors program of ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ has published a biannual newsletter.  The recently released 2023 July edition can be accessed here on the college website. One can also write Honors Director, Dr. Andrew P. Yox, for a real copy at ayox@ntcc.edu.