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Pictured: Mount Pleasant Mayor, Tracy Craig, and Writer, Jeannette McDermott will speak at the 15th annual ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Texas Poetry Reading. 

By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director

The NTCC Computer Services team is urging the campus community to stay vigilant to avoid cyber-attacks. Recently, NTCC has seen a dramatic increase in the number of spam and spear phishing e-mails sent to college accounts. According to Sebastian Barron, Director of Computer Services and Enterprise Systems, hackers are becoming increasingly sophisticated in their efforts to lure people to provide sensitive information.

By: Justin Hargrove, Assistant Athletic Director

²ÝÁñÉçÇø Women’s and Men’s Soccer teams returned to campus on August 10th to begin preparing for the upcoming season. Recently promoted Head Coaches, Heather Brady will oversee the Women’s program and Juan (JD) Perales will oversee the Men’s program.

Pictured: Rodriguez and Chapin presenting their research.

²ÝÁñÉçÇø celebrated August 2022 commencement on Friday, Aug. 12 at 7 p.m. in the Whatley Center for the Performing Arts. A total of 94 graduates were awarded 57 certificates of competency and 61 associate degrees. Whitnee Floyd gave the student welcome and Courtney Baldwin delivered the student response.

Congratulations, graduates! We are very proud of your accomplishments.  

By: Justin Hargrove, Assistant Athletic Director

²ÝÁñÉçÇø Athletics is moving to digital tickets for the upcoming 2022-2023 sports seasons. In an effort to help our fan experience, Eagle Athletics is now working with Hometown Tickets to provide online ticket sales.

Christi Denney recently presented the ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Foundation with $2,000 to support the Nita DeWoody Memorial Scholarship fund. The money was raised through a 5K virtual event that was held last year and generous donations by local business sponsors.

The NTCC Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Program has moved to a new location on campus. Faculty offices and classrooms are now located in the Instructional Annex building as follows:

Russell VanBibber
Office:  IA 114 A1
Classroom: IA 114

Gary Short
Office: IA 114 A
Classroom: IA 104

EMS mailboxes and Lab will remain in the UHS building for Fall 2022. To learn more about EMS at NTCC, visit www.ntcc.edu/ems. 

²ÝÁñÉçÇø will host its August 2022 commencement ceremony on Friday, Aug. 12 in the Whatley Center for the Performing Arts at 7 p.m. Seating is limited, so only guests who have tickets will be admitted into the auditorium. Graduation will be streamed live on  and  for those who are unable to attend in person.