Henderson State University

SCHOOL INFORMATION

Henderson State University, founded in 1890 as Arkadelphia Methodist College,^[2] is a four-year public liberal arts university located in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, United States.^[3] It is Arkansas's only member of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges.^[2] Henderson's curricula based on the belief that a liberal arts education is essential for all undergraduates; Henderson utilizes a program based on a core of courses in the arts and sciences.^[4] The school owns and operates radio station KSWH-FM, as well as the local Public-access television cable TV channel, HTV on Suddenlink's channel 9.

Dr. Charles Welch became Henderson State University’s 15th president in 2008. One of his first acts was to hire Dr. Vernon Miles as the university's provost. Miles previously served as Dean of the College at Lynchburg College in Virginia and worked at Our Lady of the Holy Cross College in New Orleans before coming to HSU.^[6] On November 12, 2009, Dr. Welch was formally invested as president by the current governor of Arkansas, Mike Beebe.

Henderson State University has a urban campus. Some of the buildings include the Donald W. Reynolds Science Center, Arkansas Hall, McBrien Hall, Mooney Hall, Womack Hall, the Garrison Activity and Conference Center, and Sturgis Hall. Sturgis Hall is a three story building that provides classrooms, laboratories, offices, and student housing for the Honors College. McBrien Hall provides classrooms, offices, labs, and conference rooms for the English, social sciences, philosophy, psychology, sociology, and foreign languages programs. It also holds the administrative offices for Ellis Collge of Arts and Sciences. The Huie Library serves as the university's library. The library is named after the university's first full-time librarian, Minnie Bell Huie (1934). The library holds over 300,000 books, 100 databases, and 60 student computers.