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...
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...
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...
Three NTCC history students emerged on top in the 2025 Bonnie Spencer competition, for the best student essays in history at NTCC, outside of the honors seminars. Each will earn a $50 award. This year, a generous donation to honors by former NTCC Presidential Scholar, Jessica Velazquez, helped round off the funding for this contest, as well as covering another award. Essays could have been entered from any history course taken at the college during the 2024-2025 school year, on campus or online...
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...
As in 2023 and 2024, NTCC scholars performed admirably in the Red River Symposium, hosted again by Texas A&M Texarkana, 20 May 2025. It was the third poster and oral-presentation conference chaired by the founding dean of the honors college at Texarkana, Dr. Craig Nakashian. There were four categories of presenters, and NTCC scholars won $100-first-place-awards in three. Gracie Gray...
Estefani Garcia was recently named the winner of the 2025 Elizabeth Chitsey Award, granted each year to the student of Honors 草榴社区 who most exceeded expectations during their first year at NTCC. The award comes with a $200 check. The 2024 graduate of Mount Pleasant High School...
Since 2008, the honors program of NTCC has published a biannual newsletter. The recently released 2025 spring edition can be accessed by clicking here. One can also write Honors Director, Dr. Andrew P. Yox, for a real copy at ayox@ntcc.edu...
NTCC鈥檚 Webb-Chapter-Award winning film, featured last fall in San Antonio, and this spring in Houston, is now available to the public through the film site of Honors 草榴社区 at this link. The film on Big Oil and Texas politics, 1935 to 1980, was premiered last Friday on the NTCC campus. For a student film, viewers...
