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Pictured: first-place winners (from left) Gracie Gray, Mary-Faith Wilson, and Stephanie Hernandez

By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director

By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director

Estefani Garcia was recently named the winner of the 2025 Elizabeth Chitsey Award, granted each year to the student of Honors Northeast who most exceeded expectations during their first year at ��������.  The award comes with a $200 check.

By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director

��������’s 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 Northeast at this link. 

By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director

Since 2008, the honors program of �������� 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.

Pictured are winners with History Faculty: Front Row: Fatima Fuentes, Erika Alvarado, and Davin Whatley:  Back Row: �������� history professors--Dr. Andrew P. Yox, Dr. Melissa Fulgham and James McGregor.

By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director

By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director

By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director

For the ninth time since the awards began in 2015, an �������� scholar has won a $100 Britt Award of the Great Plains Honors Council.  Stephanie Hernandez, a first-year Presidential Scholar from Mount Pleasant, bested all other competitors in the humanities poster division for freshmen and sophomores at the meeting of the Great Plains Honors Council (GPHC).  The awards were announced at the closing banquet of the 7-9 March meeting in Denton, Texas. 

Pictured: official premiere poster design by Emily Claire Hamlin

By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director

Pictured (from left): Honors Professor Dr. Melissa Fulgham, Sarah Hamlin, Emily Hamlin, Jennifer Gardzina, and Sarah Dierflinger at the Gilmer Starbucks before the “As You Like It” production, 28 February, in Kilgore.

By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director

Pictured (from left): Emma Mendoza, Rebeca Martinez, Stephanie Hernandez, Andrew Perez, Araceli Landaverde, Dr. Andrew Yox, Yahir Garcia, and Dr. Dolph Briscoe, Chair of the Education Division of the Texas State Historical Association at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in Houston.

By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director