COLLEGE IS SHORT.
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Be brilliant. Be dynamic. Be creative. (Just be yourself.) THIS IS HENDRIX COLLEGE. There are no boxes to fit in. Just ideas to act on. And adventures to seek out. So, dare. Dream. Imagine. Plot and plan. Then pack your bags, because the world is waiting for your own special blend of brilliance.
BE YOU > BE BRILLIANT >
Take your brain on an Odyssey. WELCOME TO THE LIBERATING POWER OF THE LIBERAL ARTS. Hendrix will challenge you, open your mind, connect you to the world, and give you freedom to forge your own intellectual path. Here, it’s cool to be a neuro-nerd, a mathlete, a theatre geek, or a Viking of literature. You’ll need to be to keep up with our professors. They’re talking metaregression in Australia, publishing sci-fi novels, composing operas, and trekking all over the world on Fulbrights. Serious sagacity in action, huh? Our king of never-boring, President Tsutsui (with degrees from Harvard, Oxford, and Princeton) is one of the world’s leading experts on Godzilla. So do like Tsutsui and #BeHendrix.
“WHAT IF? WHY NOT?” YES! ASK THAT AND MORE.
Unquenchable curiosity leads to the best adventures. Meet Odyssey. In our world-famous program, you get to explore your passion no matter how big and bold it may be. From teaching dance therapy to understanding atmospheric aerosols (see, we said anything), we’ll help you embark on your own intellectual quest.
BORING IS THE ANTITHESIS OF LEARNING.
Intern with the County Circuit Court. Volunteer with the homeless in California. Discover art, culture, and tradition in Italy. Publish a book of original smoothie recipes. What’s on your mind? Warning: Funding for the projects is competitive. May the best ideas win!
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Our goal: Spark your synapses. Illuminate minds. Start with our first-year semester course, “The Engaged Citizen,” the critical launchpad for the Hendrix experience. It’s taught by two professors from different disciplines with different perspectives – all on purpose. Because your first HDX lesson is perhaps the greatest: No two brains are the same. And that’s a very good thing.
“There’s no pressure to be one thing or another here. Just room to be you.”
Scoring points for orange. Going green for the planet.
– Eugene Pegues ’18 / Chemistry
Eugene Pegues ’18 rocks a Warriors football jersey and a white lab coat. He’s majoring in Chemistry and minoring in Asian Studies. And right now, he’s working with Hendrix’s Professor Kett to revolutionize biosensors. Their research goal? Make a just-aseffective, but infinitely greener, reusable biosensor (like the kind of strip used to test blood sugar). Just imagine what it could mean if they succeed: less waste and one happy planet. According to Eugene, that chance to apply knowledge to a real-world problem is one of the best parts of Hendrix.
HENDRIX ATHLETES DON’T JUST FIGHT FOR VICTORY ON THE FIELD (OR COURT, OR TRACK) – THEY WORK EVEN HARDER OFF IT. More than 50 percent of Hendrix student-athletes made the SAA Academic Honor Roll last spring. Every team had a representative on the conference All-Sportsmanship roster. Just two reasons why fans gather to cheer on the Warriors with all their might.
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HENDRIX IS ONE OF THE TOP COLLEGES IN THE COUNTRY for grads earning Ph.D.s in engineering and the sciences – so says the National Science Foundation.
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PRE-PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMS: DENTISTRY | ENGINEERING (3/2 PROGRAM) | LAW | MEDICINE (AND OTHER HEALTH-RELATED FIELDS)
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STUDIO ART
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
GENDER STUDIES
ENGLISH
EDUCATION
DANCE
CHINESE
ASIAN STUDIES
ART HISTORY
APPLIED MATHEMATICS
AFRICANA STUDIES
MINORS ONLY
* minor available
THEATRE ARTS*
SPANISH*
SOCIOLOGY-ANTHROPOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY EMPHASIS*
SOCIOLOGY-ANTHROPOLOGY: ANTHROPOLOGY EMPHASIS*
RELIGIOUS STUDIES*
PSYCHOLOGY*
POLITICS*
PHYSICS*
PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGIOUS STUDIES
PHILOSOPHY*
NEUROSCIENCE*
MUSIC*
MATHEMATICS*
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS*
INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES
HISTORY*
HEALTH SCIENCE
GERMAN*
FRENCH*
ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
ENGLISH: LITERARY STUDIES
ENGLISH: FILM STUDIES*
ENGLISH: CREATIVE WRITING
ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS*
ECONOMICS*
COMPUTER SCIENCE*
CLASSICS*
CHEMISTRY*
CHEMICAL PHYSICS
BIOLOGY*
BIOCHEMISTRY-MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
ART
ACCOUNTING*
MAJORS WHAT’S THE DEAL WITH THE COFFIN ON CAMPUS?
It’s a prop from a film by Mary Nail ’20 and Kennedy Reynolds ’20, “Intervention,” which won Best in Show at HDX’s Annual Red Brick Film Festival. (Yes, we serve cookies and popcorn.)
We’re a not-so-typical liberal arts college with a typical list of majors and minors. (It’s what you do with them that counts.)
Got it?
MINISTRY | PHARMACY | PUBLIC HEALTH (COMBINED BA/MPH DEGREE) | SOCIAL WORK | TEACHER EDUCATION | VETERINARY MEDICINE
Alison Monroe ’19 Biology
YUM
“A GUIDED DREAM” Five friends from Hendrix. Two weeks in Argentina. Thirty hours of Spanish class. Allison and co. took the trip of a lifetime (funded by the Murphy Scholars Program) to study poet Jorge Luis Borges in his homeland. They soaked it all in. (Literally. They got drenched in Iguazu Falls – one of the natural wonders of the world.)
Over sophomore Winter Break, Allison met up with Jessa Thurman ’16 – a Fulbright Summer Scholar and Watson Fellow living in Thailand – to ride elephants and study entomophagy, aka eating insects. Crunch.
SHAPING THE FUTURE BY PRESERVING OUR HERITAGE That’s the goal of The Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C., where Allison interned – with the help of Odyssey funding – the summer after her freshman year. Making history? Check.
“Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.” – Jorge Luis Borges
Meet a real-life bug girl. ALLISON MONROE ’19 HAS A THING FOR THE CREEPY CRAWLERS. When she goes for a hike, she brings home a bug. A Provost Scholar, she’s also one of our Murphy Scholars, a group dedicated to all things literature and language. She’s chair of the Environmental Concerns Committee. And a passionate member of the Biology Club and the Spanish Club. She’s just one of our 1,300+ non-boring students.
WHOA! MOTHER NATURE
WELCOME TO MIAMI (Got the Will Smith song stuck in your head now? Sorry.) Allison joined a group from Hendrix’s Miller Center to work in Little Haiti to explore the effects of immigration policy.
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Allison is co-founder and president of The Naturalists Club. It exists to get you outdoors and out of your comfort zone. They hike. Canoe. Take treks with environmental philosophers. And anything else to understand the value of the ecosystems that surround us.
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7,825 FEET And Allison – along with a group of Hendrix pals – hiked every single one of them at Emory Point, the highest peak in Big Bend National Park. So much for relaxing on Spring Break.
BEST COLLEGE IN ARKANSAS (FORBES) HIGHEST-RANKED LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGE IN TEXAS AND SURROUNDING STATES 2017 U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT “BEST NATIONAL LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGES” TRAVEL + LEISURE MAGAZINE’S “MOST BEAUTIFUL COLLEGE” LIST BEST COLLEGE FOOD (NICHE) ONE OF 140 COLLEGES CHOSEN FOR THE PRINCETON REVIEW’S 2016 BEST COLLEGES “BEST IN THE SOUTHEAST” (2016 FISKE GUIDE TO COLLEGES) #59 IN HIGH SCHOOL COUNSELOR RANKINGS (U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT) AND ACCORDING TO FORBES: #161 IN TOP COLLEGES #126 IN PRIVATE COLLEGES #78 IN LIBERAL ARTS UNIVERSITIES #27 IN THE SOUTH #99 IN GRATEFUL GRADS AN AMERICA’S BEST VALUE COLLEGE A “BEST VALUE COLLEGE” (KIPLINGER’S) why be boring? | ten
(All this and in Arkansas, too.)
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DO YOU DREAM IN OTHER LANGUAGES?
Almost 100% of Hendrix professors hold a Ph.D. or equivalent degree.
Then the Murphy House will be your new home. It’s a quiet place near the heart of campus to read, write, and ponder. It’s also the cultural hub responsible for bringing in top linguists, playwrights, opera composers, poets, authors, documentary filmmakers, Shakespearean actors, and choreographers. Murphy Scholars can earn up to $4,000 to study, travel, and research. One more thing: There’s a secret room in the Murphy House – will you be the one to find it?
Find your crew. Join the Bike Revolution (it’s a club). Battle with Sword Club. Raise money for good deeds with Campus Kitty. Broadcast live at KHDX, our student-run radio station. Play a NCAA D-III sport. (More than a third of students do.) Yes, to all? Chances are you won’t have to look very hard
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to find kindred spirits. It all starts at orientation, a week of “getting to know you” that culminates with trips to hike, climb, and wander around your new homebase. And just like any family, we’re big on tradition. When it’s your birthday, prepare to be serenaded in the dining hall, eat your favorite cake, and be thrown into our campus fountain. (Winter birthday-ers beware.)
DO YOUR OWN THING AND BE PART OF A TEAM. In 21 NCAA Division III sports, Warriors fight together.
Baseball (M) Basketball (M,W) Cross Country (M,W) Field Hockey (W) Football (M) Golf (M,W) Lacrosse (M,W) Soccer (M,W) Softball (W) Swimming and Diving (M,W) Tennis (M,W) Track and Field (M,W) Volleyball (W)
70+ STUDENT CLUBS AND ORGANIZATIONS 1,300+ STUDENTS FROM 45 STATES AND 19 COUNTRIES
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13/2500 Out of 2,500 U.S. colleges and universities, our new Wellness and Athletic Center scored 13th in the nation.
Amy Crump ’18 Psychology-Neuroscience
“IT’S KILLER.” No, really – “Yosemite” means “killer” in Miwok, an indigenous Native American language. Watch out.
Making it click. “HENDRIX HELPS YOU BECOME YOUR FULLEST SELF. It encourages you to explore your interests and discover new ones.” That’s how Amy Crump ’18, a self-designed Psychology-Neuroscience major, took a photography expedition in Yosemite. “It was an exploration of the outdoors. Of personal expression. And solace. It changed my life.” Where will you go and who will you become? Time to go exploring.
MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE. The Louisiana native isn’t just a super-smart psych major and insanely talented artist. She’s a Murphy Scholar. Minors in Classics. Tutors fourth-graders. Has an on-campus job. Oh, and studied at Accademia dell’Arte in Tuscany.
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Almost 100% of Hendrix professors hold a Ph.D. or equivalent degree.
With some serious cerebrum. FACT: WE GRADUATE A HIGHER PERCENTAGE OF STUDENTS WHO GO ON TO EARN PH.D.S THAN MOST (SEE LIST ON THE LEFT). Our law school acceptance rate is a whopping 87%. Med schools love our students, too, with 89% – double the national average – of our applicants getting in. Why? Our students never stop asking questions or thinking critically. Hendrix students discover mathematical theories. Intern for national news conglomerates. And study abroad on six continents. (We’re coming for you, Antarctica!)
We beat Duke, Dartmouth, and Berkeley.
It’s this independent spirit that keeps you wanting to learn more (and more and more). And it’s why U.S. News & World Report named us the #4 Most Innovative College in the country. Don’t you just love facts?
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Hewlett-Packard Heifer International training Haitian doctors to save lives founding the world’s largest film competition
FROM COLLEGE IN ARKANSAS TO: #8 FOR “BEST UNDERGRADUATE TEACHING” AND A WHOLE LOT MORE (U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT)
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hosting “The Unhappy Hour” comedy special
Acxiom Corp.
WARRIORS WORK HARD. STUDENTS HAVE INTERNED AT:
Everbright Bank, China Arkansas Educational Television Network Oregon National Primate Research Center
roller-derbying under the name “Margaret Thrasher”
Slow Food USA
writing the official Arkansas state song
James Cancer Center
TSL Digital Ltd, London Smithsonian Museum of Natural History
anchoring a flagship ESPN show every Sunday
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“I’D LIKE TO THANK…”
Sophomore year, Brian won The Lantern Theatre People’s Choice “Best Actor” Award for his role in The Rocky Horror Show. “Don’t dream it, be it!”
BE YOU OR ELSE Brian breaks it down with HDX Dance Ensemble.
TAKING CENTER STAGE Gets serious in
his Cabe Theatre work study. Spices things up in shop class.
Took a class taught by a Rockette. BECAUSE WHEN YOU’RE A THEATRE MAJOR AND DANCE MINOR, THAT’S JUST HOW YOU ROLL. Looking for Brian? Find a dance floor or a stage and chances are good he’ll be at the center of it. Start your search at Cabe Theatre. It’s our 242-seat performance venue and home to the only revolving stage in the state. Want to see some of his dance moves? Try Shirttails, one of our oldest and most treasured Hendrix experiences. It’s one performance you won’t want to miss. Just ask Brian.
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Brian Earles ’18 Theatre
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“Friendships aren’t determined by what you’re involved in. Do what you want. Be friends with who you want. Just be you.”
1876, founded 11:1 Student/faculty ratio
“The Hendrix student is open, willing, and brave enough to take a chance.”
35.100030° N, 92.442005° W – Conway, AR
100% of our lab instruments and scientific equipment are for undergrad use
18 average class size
100% of Hendrix students complete at least three hands-on Odyssey learning experiences
33 majors, 35 minors, 1 M.A. in accounting
89% of financial need met (on average)
1 on-campus elephant skeleton
100% of students receive some form of achievement-based and/or needbased assistance
8 residence halls & 5 student apartment buildings 52% female; 48% male
43% of students are athletes
31 Fulbright Scholars
70% of students do a research project with faculty
1 Fulbright Summer Scholar
85% of seniors do a senior project
34 Watson Fellows
70% of students do an internship or field experience
6 Rhodes Scholars 31 Goldwater Scholars 3 Truman Scholars
18,000+ alumni $3.8 million in Odyssey funding
2 Marshall Scholars
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Hendrix College strives to maintain an environment free from discrimination and harassment, where employees treat each other with respect, dignity and courtesy. The College adheres to the principle of equal educational and employment opportunity without regard to age, race, color, gender, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, or national origin.
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They call Arkansas the Land of Opportunity. Visit us at Hendrix. We’ll show you why. hendrix.edu
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