Honors releases new Alacrity newsletter
Honors 草榴社区, the honors program of 草榴社区, has released the summer 2025 edition of its Alacrity newsletter. The latest issue highlights accomplishments of current students and alumni...
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Speakers announced for 18th annual 草榴社区 Texas Poetry Reading
The annual 草榴社区 Texas Poetry Reading on Friday, 5 September at 11 AM will again occur at the Foyer of the Whatley Center for the Performing Arts on the 草榴社区 campus. The public is invited for this free event, the eighteenth of its kind in as many years. As before, the Reading will feature the six readings of the highest ranked poems of the adult and student divisions...
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Honors Students and NTCC Webb Society film new Texas saga
In a spin-off from Presidential Scholar, Stephanie Hernandez鈥檚 prize-winning scholarship last year, Honors 草榴社区, and the NTCC Webb Society filmed a Mexican-American happening, 4-8 August at NTCC, Titus, Franklin, Marion, and Cass counties. It is a late-twentieth-century story of the struggle for Mexican American identity. The film examines two rival art associations...
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Honors students attend Texas Shakespeare Festival
Three NTCC students, all involved in this summer鈥檚 honors film project, witnessed Shakespeare鈥檚 Twelfth Night in an afternoon production on 24 July. They traveled to the annual Texas Shakespeare Festival in Kilgore. Donors of Honors 草榴社区 and of the college, Jerald and Mary Lou Mowery made the excursion possible. The students drove from NTCC and back with Dr. Andrew Yox, honors director...
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Entries sought for 18th annual 草榴社区 Texas Poetry Contest
Honors 草榴社区, the honors program of 草榴社区 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 草榴社区 Texas. Adult poetry winners will take home $100 and $50 for first and second place...
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Two Presidential Scholars win Eckman Awards
For their performance in the spring of 2025 in honors at NTCC in relation to their peers, two Presidential Scholars won $100 checks. Sophomore Mary Faith Wilson, the college鈥檚 Gladys Winkle Scholar, came out ahead among the sophomores, scoring the highest among the two-year cohort in the McGraw Hill Poster contest, and concluding with a perfect GPA...
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Honors students advance film research in San Antonio
Stephanie Hernandez鈥檚 state Caldwell-Award winning essay on Tejano murals may not only result in a publication. The NTCC Presidential Scholar now awaiting her sophomore year may see her work one day as a cinematic premiere. This past May, four upcoming scholars of Honors 草榴社区鈥擝ree Fite, Emma Mendoza, Litzy Flores, and Adam Richards, and Honors Director, Dr. Andrew Yox, journeyed to San Antonio...
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Vanessajane Bayna becomes the first Udall Scholar from NTCC
Vanessajane Bayne, a chemical and environmental engineering student from 草榴社区, is one of 55 students selected as 2025 Udall Scholars and will receive a $7,000 scholarship. The Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation selects recipients of this highly competitive scholarship on the basis of commitment to careers in the environment, leadership potential, record of public service, and academic achievement. Scholars attend a required multi-day Scholar Orientation experience...
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Winners announced for 17th annual McGraw-Hill Poster Contest
Dr. John Zubizarreta, a recently retired expert in honor education, once summarized what he believed was the most important insight of his career. 鈥淐onscientious mentoring鈥 he said, was the 鈥渒ey to transformative experiences in education.鈥 This year鈥檚 17th annual McGraw Hill Poster Contest at the Whatley Foyer on 9 May 2025 again attested to the importance of such academic counseling. All of the fifteen student participants this year received extensive one-on-one professionalization time or correspondence with faculty. In general, those who performed better, received even more, and most importantly, were willing to make the time to receive more mentoring...
