Campus News Hi HYI Hendrix received $598,164 from Lilly Endowment Inc. to create the Hendrix Youth Institute (HYI), a summer program that will help high school students discern a call to ministry. Michelle Moore ’06 was named Project Director of the new summer program. Moore is currently the Director of Program and Marketing for Camp and Retreat Ministries and the Youth and Young Adult Coordinator for the Arkansas Conference of the United Methodist Church. The Lilly Endowment Inc. also awarded a five-year $500,000 grant for the Hendrix College Institute for Clergy and Civic Engagement (ICCE), which held its first retreat this fall. The retreat was led by Rev. Jeanie Burton, Rev. J. Wayne Clark ’84, Rev. Mary Jane Cole, and Rev. J.J. Whitney ’96. Hendrix received the grant to develop and enhance leadership skills and ministry capacity for early career Hendrix alumni and Arkansas pastors to lead their churches and communities in addressing major issues within their communities and meet the needs of the mission field outside the walls of the church.
#78 spot on the magazine’s list of 100 best values in private liberal arts colleges and was listed #176 in the top 300 list of public and private colleges and universities. In the fall, the 2016 U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges listed Hendrix as #10 among the country’s “Most Innovative” liberal arts colleges and one of the top 30 liberal arts colleges recognized for “A Strong Commitment to Undergraduate Teaching.” Hendrix ranked #82 among the country’s top 100 liberal arts colleges and is the only top-100 nationally ranked liberal arts college in Arkansas featured in the U.S. News rankings. Hendrix was also one of 140 colleges chosen for The Princeton Review’s 2016 Best Colleges “Best in the Southeast” list and was among 300 colleges and universities in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain featured in the 2016 Fiske Guide to Colleges. Hendrix appeared in Forbes’ 2016 America’s Best Value Colleges, ranking #233 overall and #174 in Private Colleges, #91 in Liberal Arts Universities, #42 in the South, and #90 in Grateful Grads. Hendrix also earned a Forbes Financial Grade of “A-” and was listed as the best college in Arkansas.
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Hendrix and United International College (UIC) in Zhuhai, China, will collaborate on new study abroad opportunities, as well as student, faculty and staff exchange programs, and collaborative research projects. Under the new student exchange agreement, an equal number of Hendrix and UIC students will study at the other institution each year. The student exchange could begin as early as the 2016-2017 academic year.
The Hendrix Warrior volleyball team made it to the NCAA Division III Championship Semifinals, the best finish for any Warrior program in school history. The Warriors ended the season at 29-9, the second most wins in program history, under American Volleyball Coaches Association NCAA Division III Coach of the Year Ryan Meek, who guided the Warriors to their second consecutive Southern Athletic Association regular season and tournament titles and to their first ever AVCA Top 25 ranking.
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The Hendrix Warrior volleyball team won the SAA regular season and tournament titles and made it to the NCAA Division III semifinals.
Barrett Goodwin ’16 was selected from among over 400 students to receive The Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars (TWC) Award for Global Citizenship. Goodwin was one of five Hendrix students studying in the nation’s capital last fall through the new Hendrixin-Washington program, a partnership between Hendrix and TWC. Other participating students included Sarah Moore ’16, Guneev Sharma ’16, Hamza Syed ’16, and Kay Beth Tyson ’16.
Value Proposition Hendrix was included in Kiplinger’s Personal Finance’s list of the Top 300 Best College Values of 2016. Hendrix earned the
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