Skylar Reese Fondren, the Texas Heritage National Bank Scholar of NTCC, has just won the student election of the Great Plains Honors Council (GPHC). She will be the one student from eighty honors programs and colleges, from Nebraska to Texas, to join the other professorial members of the GPHC Executive Council.
Fondren is the first student in NTCC history to win both a Britt poster award of the GPHC, and a first-place McGraw-Hill poster award as a first-year student. She also is the first to both write the script and direct an honors film production, in this case, this year’s work on Texas suffragette, Minnie Fisher Cunningham. Finally, this past October she was part of a first-ever team from NTCC to win the Portia Gordon Award, for having the best student panel at the East Texas Historical Association.
Her award-winning research has featured the story of how Northeast Texas became a news desert.