Summary
Hendrix College is a private liberal arts college located in Conway, Arkansas. The student body averages around 1,400 and currently represents forty-three states and fourteen foreign countries.[1] In US News and World Report's America's Best Colleges, Hendrix is ranked annually in the top tier of liberal arts colleges. In the 2008 edition Hendrix is ranked 71st in the nation. In 2009, Forbes ranked it 81st of America's Best Colleges.[2] The college is affiliated with the United Methodist Church; however, the curriculum is secular and the student body is composed of people from many different religious backgrounds. Hendrix is a member of the Associated Colleges of the South. Its current president is Dr. James Timothy Cloyd. Hendrix College is listed in Loren Pope's Colleges That Change Lives.
College history
Hendrix College was founded as a primary school called Central Institute in 1876 at Altus, Arkansas, by Rev. Isham L. Burrow. In 1881 it was renamed Central Collegiate Institute when secondary and collegiate departments were added. By 1886, three conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South purchased the school. This began the school's relationship with the Methodist Episcopal Church, South and later The Methodist Church, and United Methodist Church. The Central Collegiate Institute was renamed Hendrix College in 1889 after Rev. Eugene Russell Hendrix, a presiding bishop over three Arkansas Methodist conferences. This same year, the primary school was discontinued.
Afterward, Hendrix College might have been the only male Methodist college in Arkansas. Eventually, females were permitted to enroll, but separation of the sexes was tightly controlled. In 1890 after receiving bids from seven other Arkansas towns, Conway was chosen as the new location for the college by the Hendrix Board of Trustees. By 1925 the secondary department was discontinued. A bid was accepted in 1929 to merge the college with Henderson-Brown College, a private college in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. The merger created Hendrix-Henderson College.
The newly formed college was planning to move the school to Little Rock, Arkansas, but the city of Conway was able to raise $150,000 to keep the school located at Hendrix's campus. Two years later the name of the college was reverted back to Hendrix College after a short period of being named Trinity College, which was opposed by many students and alumni. The college merged with Galloway Women’s College in Searcy, Arkansas in 1933, during the Great Depression. Hendrix College retained its location and facilities during this merger.[3]
Recognition
U.S. News & World Report lists Hendrix as the #1 “Up-and-coming Liberal Arts College” in its 2010 list of best colleges. Hendrix is also ranked 80th on the magazine's list of best liberal arts colleges.[7]
The Fiske Guide to Colleges names Hendrix one of 44 national "Best Buy" colleges and universities in its 2010 edition.[8]
Forbes lists Hendrix as ranked #102 on the “America's Best Colleges” for 2010.[9]
The Princeton Review lists Hendrix for academic excellence in its 2008 college guide, The Best 366 Colleges: 11th in the "professors get high marks" category, 11th in the "best classroom experience" category, 16th in the "best college theater" category, and 20th in the "lots of race/class interaction."[10] The Princeton Review’s 2008 edition of American’s Best Value Colleges also lists Hendrix.[11] The Best 371 Colleges (2010) lists Hendrix 5th for “Easiest Campus to Get Around” and 13th for “Best Athletic Facilities.”[12]
Hendrix College is featured in Loren Pope's Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools that will Change the Way You Think About Colleges.[13]
The Institute of International Education has awarded Hendrix with a 2012 Andrew Heiskell Award for International Exchange Partnerships as project coordinators of the Rwanda Presidential Scholars Program.[14]
Campus buildings
Since the mid-1990s, the college has been pursuing a master plan for campus construction, developed in consultation with architectural design firm Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co. Currently, there are 36 buildings on campus, three of which are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRoHP).
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