Hendrix College
Work 1600 Washington Avenue
Conway, AR 72032
Work(800) 277-9017
Admissions E-mail: adm@hendrix.edu
Web site: http://www.hendrix.edu
- 80Rank
- 55Score
Tier 1
College Category:
Liberal Arts Colleges
Liberal Arts Colleges
Overview : Hendrix College
| General Information | |
|---|---|
| Institutional Control: | Private |
| Year founded: | 1876 |
| Religious affiliation: | United Methodist |
| Academic calendar: | semester |
| Total number of undergraduates: | 1,342 |
| Setting: | suburban |
| Endowment: | $177,273,198 |
| Fall Admissions | |
| Application deadline: | 8/1 |
| Application fee: | $40 |
| Fall 2008 Acceptance rate: | 79.0% |
| Selectivity: | more selective |
| Expenses | |
| Costs: | 2009-2010 Tuition and Fees: $27,756 |
| Mission | |
| School mission: | As a leader in engaged liberal arts and sciences education, Hendrix provides a demanding yet supportive environment where tomorrow's leaders learn to combine critical thought with action. A private, undergraduate institution of the liberal arts founded in 1876 and related to the United Methodist Church, Hendrix offers distinguished academic programs in a residential setting. An 11-to-1 student-faculty ratio encourages student engagement and interaction with faculty. Students and faculty come together in a learning community, with the shared goal of helping each student develop "Unto the Whole Person", which is the College's motto. More than ever before, Hendrix College students are actively engaged in their education, involved in learning in a hands-on way that takes them outside the book and into the world. A new component of the curriculum - Your Hendrix Odyssey: Engaging in Active Learning - is the reason for this increase in engagement and for an explosion of energy and enthusiasm on the Hendrix campus. The Odyssey Program, launched in fall 2005, requires that students complete at least three experiential learning projects during their college career. Students chose from six categories: artistic creativity, service to the world, global awareness, professional and leadership development, undergraduate research, and special projects. Students receive transcript recognition for completing Odyssey projects. Competitive grants are available to help fund the cost of Odyssey projects, ensuring that all students can participate regardless of their financial situation. By late spring 2008, Hendrix students and faculty members had shared more than $1 million in grants to fund projects ranging from teaching English in rural China and delivering medical supplies to poor Mexican villages to planting, maintaining and learning from a vegetable garden on campus. Incoming students are eligible for Odyssey Distinction Awards, scholarships of $1,000 to $5,000, based on their experiential activities in high school. The Odyssey program has developed from Hendrix's long-standing commitment to experiential learning, which includes an emphasis on undergraduates conducting research in various fields and presenting their results in national forums such as at annual meetings of the American Chemical Society and the National Council for Undergraduate Research. The College is also experiencing a renewal of campus facilities. In the past five years, the College has replaced all its science facilities, constructed new residence halls and built a new home for a special program in language and literature. In 2007, Hendrix opened a new Wellness and Athletics Center, featuring an Olympic-sized pool, a fitness center, a recreational gymnasium, kinesiology classrooms and labs, and a competition gymnasium. The wellness and athletics complex also includes a new track with an artificial turf playing field at its center and new soccer fields, new baseball and softball fields, and new tennis courts. Hendrix, which competes in the Southern Collegiate Athletics Conference as an NCAA Division III school, added two new intercollegiate sports in 2007-08: field hockey for women and lacrosse for men. The College has begun construction of a new Student Life and Technology Center, a building blending traditional campus center spaces with cutting-edge technology in an Educational Technology Center that will be open 24/7. The new building is scheduled to open in spring 2010. Hendrix is also developing an area east of the campus into a retail and residential neighborhood called The Village at Hendrix. The neighborhood will include student housing options as well as businesses that will provide various amenities for students within an easy walk of the campus. More information about these projects is available at http://www.hendrix.edu. |
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