The Northeast Texas Community College Board of Trustees held its regular meeting on Tuesday, June 24. This marked the first meeting under the leadership of NTCC’s sixth president, Dr. Kevin Rose. The following is a summary of reports given and action that was taken at the June meeting:
Northeast Texas Community College (NTCC) is now enrolling students in its new GED NOW program— a free, accelerated 6-week course designed to help adult learners quickly earn their GED and transition to college or a career pathway.
The Dollar General Literacy Foundation (DGLF) recently awarded Northeast Texas Community College Adult Education and Literacy Program (NTCC AEL) a $10,000 grant to support adult literacy. The funds are a part of a record-setting, one-day donation in the Foundation’s history of more than $13.2 million to support adult, family, and summer literacy programs in the 48 states in which Dollar General operates.
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’s 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, and a high score in Honors Psychology. Mary Faith has now won Eckmans for both of her two semesters in honors. Among the first-year students, ending the year with impressive scores in the ChemPsych Seminar, Stephanie Hernandez came out on top. She also won a cash award in the poster contest, and was the first Presidential Scholar to reach apex scores for both sides of the 2nd year-old seminar, performing brilliantly in both chemistry and psychology. Like Wilson who won a Red River Symposium Award in Texarkana, and a Caldwell Award in Houston, Hernandez has also led NTCC to awards elsewhere this spring—in Denton, Houston, and Texarkana.
