Honors Northeast accepting applications

The Honors Program of ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓÆµÓ°Ôº is accepting applications for the 2016-2017 school year. The deadline to apply is March 1. High School seniors in the top tenth of their class are welcome to apply, as well as ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓÆµÓ°Ôº students with a 3.5 GPA or higher. Honors Northeast combines challenging seminars of key core curricular classes, with opportunities for advanced mentoring, student travel, interscholastic competition, publications and community service.

Honors Northeast promotes scholars

The ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓÆµÓ°Ôº Honors Committee recently promoted Hector Zuniga, an ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓÆµÓ°Ôº sophomore from Mount Pleasant, from the title of Honors Scholar to Presidential Scholar. Zuniga won the citation for Academic Excellence in last fall?s Biotex Honors Seminar and has maintained a 4.0 GPA at ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓÆµÓ°Ôº.† The Biotex seminar is composed each fall of entering honors students, and Zuniga won the top rank.†Honors Northeast also admitted two additional Honors Scholars - Kassandra† Martinez and Ryan-Rose Mendoza.

Archers support Honors Northeast

Jim and Paula Archer recently contributed $1,000 to the Honors Northeast program at ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓÆµÓ°Ôº. A matching gift from IBM brought the total gift to $2,000. †The gift will be used to fund cultural trips for scholars in Honors Northeast.

Since its inception at ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓÆµÓ°Ôº in 2007, the Honors Program has begun each school year with a ?roundup?

Honors Northeast to premiere new historical film

The ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓÆµÓ°Ôº Webb Society and Honors Northeast Present will premiere their new original film†Two for One: The Story of Ma and Pa Ferguson on†Friday, Feb. 5 at 7 p.m. in the†Whatley Center for the Performing Arts.


Jim ?Pa" Ferguson came to power by backing tenant farmers and avoiding the issue of alcohol.

Honors Northeast attends NCHC meeting in Chicago

Five sophomore ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓÆµÓ°Ôº Honors students, in addition to Honors professors Dr. Mary Hearron and Dr. Andrew Yox,†recently†represented ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓÆµÓ°Ôº at the 50th Anniversary meeting of the National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC) in Chicago. The NCHC is the premier association of honors programs and honors colleges in the nation. ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓÆµÓ°Ôº is the only community college to have featured scholarly student presenters at the yearly NCHC continuously since 2008.

NCHC committees select proposals to present on the basis of appeal, previous awards, and scholarly promise.

ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓÆµÓ°Ôº Webb chapter presents in Galveston

The ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓÆµÓ°Ôº chapter of the Walter Webb Society recently presented work at the group's statewide fall meeting in Galveston. The focus of ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓÆµÓ°Ôº's presentation was their upcoming film on Texas†governors Ma and Pa Ferguson.