Henderson State University (HSU), founded in 1890 as Arkadelphia Methodist College, is a public four-year liberal arts university located in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, United States. It is Arkansas's only member of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges. 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. 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.
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History
Henderson State University, was founded on March 23, 1890 as Arkadelphia Methodist College by Rev. John McLaughlin. John Mclaughlin was a veteran of the Confederate States Army. After the Civil War, Rev. McLaughlin and his family settled in Arkadelphia and founded the Arkadelphia Methodist College in 1890. The university was renamed for Charles Christopher Henderson, a Trustee and prominent Arkadelphia businessman, in 1904. In 1911 the name was changed to Henderson-Brown College to honor Walter Brown. The state convention decided to close the institution down after thirty nine years of Methodist control and combine it with Hendrix College in Conway. The student body, administration, and local population strongly disagreed with the idea and after negotiations with state lawmakers, Henderson-Brown was turned over to the state to prevent the merger. Then in 1929, the institution became known as Henderson State Teachers College. Hendrix was renamed Hendrix-Henderson College, and remained so for about two years before returning to Hendrix College.
After becoming a public institution, Henderson State Teachers College began to expand at a rate never envisioned while it was under Methodist control. Six major buildings were built during the Great Depression alone. After World War II, the enrollment nearly doubled to about 500 students. Graduate classes were first offered in 1951 through the University of Arkansas. In 1955, the school's first graduate degree program began. To reflect the change, the name was changed to Henderson State College in 1967 and again in 1975 to Henderson State University. Henderson has an excellent academic record. It has produced numerous Rhodes, Fulbright, and Rotary International scholars. It serves as Arkansas's only member of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges. Currently, degree programs are offered through the Matt Locke Ellis College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Business, the School of Education, and the Graduate School. Henderson has its own degree program in nursing, and it also provides the academic program for the Baptist School of Nursing. The university offers the state's only four-year bachelor of science degree in aviation. The enrollment in the fall of 2012 was 3,773. The HSU Yearbook is The Star, published continuously since 1904. The University newspaper is the Oracle, which has been published since 1908.
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Administration
Glendell Jones Jr. was named Henderson State University's 17th president on Tuesday, March 6, 2012 and officially assumed presidential duties on July 1, 2012.
Campus
Henderson State University has an 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 College 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.
Academic divisions
Ellis College of Arts and Sciences
Ellis College is named after Henderson's tenth president and distinguished graduate, Matt Locke Ellis. It was created in 1989 through a reorganization of the existing Fine Arts, Liberal Arts, and Natural Sciences schools.
School of Business
Allows students to major and earn degrees in Accounting or Business administration. The School of Business offers the only university level aviation program in the state of [Arkansas]. The degree programs are accredited by AACSB International, the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. The aviation program acts under the direction and rules of Federal Aviation Administration and is in the process of obtaining their own collegiate accreditation.
Teachers College, Henderson
The mission of Teachers College, Henderson, is to prepare reflective teachers, school leaders, counselors, and other professionals through quality instruction, service, and research to demonstrate high expectations for individual self-realization. Teachers College, Henderson, offers a comprehensive selection of undergraduate and graduate degrees including the Educational Specialist (EdS) degree and several certifications offered completely online.
Honors College
The Honors college is headed by Dr. David Thomson. Honors students participate in different activities on campus and Arkadelphia community events as well.
Graduate School
Henderson Graduate School offers 11 master's degrees, including the MLA, MBA and MAT; 1 Educational Specialist degree; and 4 certification programs.
Student life
Athletics
Upon its establishment in 1905, the Henderson State football team became known for wearing red jerseys. Absent a traditional nickname or mascot, the team was appropriately dubbed the "Reds." Eventually, the name shifted to "Reddies," and it stuck.
Henderson State University is an NCAA Division II school and competes in the Great American Conference. The school fields teams in Baseball, Basketball (Men and Women), Cross Country (Women), Football, Golf (Men and Women), Softball, Swimming (Men and Women), Tennis, and Volleyball.
Traditions
Battle of the Ravine
The Battle of the Ravine is a rivalry game between Henderson State University and Ouachita Baptist University. It is currently the oldest rivalry of any NCAA Division II institutions. The first game was played on November 8, 1895 (Thanksgiving Day) and Ouachita College beat Arkadelphia Methodist College, 8-0. The next meeting did not occur until 1907 in the first sanctioned game of the series. The Reddies defeated Ouachita and went on to claim the Arkansas State Championship.
The Reddies went on to win the next six meetings and the game was played on Thanksgiving Day. Both teams also made the game their homecoming. The series was discontinued in 1951 after Henderson won, 54-0, and the pranks got out of control. The series resumed in 1963 with the Reddies, winning 28-13. The series continued until 1993 when Henderson State moved to the NCAA Division II Gulf South Conference. It continued again in 1996 when Ouachita Baptist University moved to the Lone Star Conference. OBU joined the GSC in 2000 and the two schools did not play each other in 2004 or 2005 as a result of schedule rotation. In total, the two schools have met 85 times. Henderson State currently leads the series, 41-39-6.
Showband of Arkansas
Considered one of the finest college marching bands in the country, the "Showband of Arkansas" consists of 150 winds, percussion, and auxiliary members. The mission of the "Showband of Arkansas" is to represent, foster and promote the "Reddie Spirit" through musical and visual performance. Composed of students from all academic disciplines, the "Showband of Arkansas" frequently performs as the feature band at high school marching contests, enjoys travel to exciting away-games and regularly thrills thousands of Reddie spectators at home football games. It is open to any student by audition, regardless of major.
Greek life
Henderson State has eight fraternities as well as six sororities.
Fraternities:
- Alpha Phi Alpha
- Kappa Alpha Psi
- Kappa Sigma
- Omega Psi Phi
- Phi Beta Sigma
- Phi Lambda Chi
- Sigma Tau Gamma
Sororities:
- Alpha Kappa Alpha
- Alpha Sigma Alpha
- Alpha Sigma Tau
- Alpha Xi Delta
- Delta Sigma Theta
- Zeta Phi Beta
Notable alumni
- Bobby Bones, host of the nationally syndicated radio show Bobby Bones Show
- Lloyd L. Burke 1950, Medal of Honor recipient
- Osro Cobb, Republican politician and lawyer
- Lynn A. Davis, lecturer, crime author, head of Arkansas state police, former candidate for Arkansas secretary of state
- Martha Smith Dixon, clothing designer and member of the Arkansas Black Hall of Fame.
- Ken Duke, professional golfer
- Robert Fisher, president of Belmont University.
- Roy Green, 1979, former American football wide receiver in the National Football League
- Tony Johns, Canadian football player
- Irene Callaway Harrower, opera singer
- Kaki Hockersmith, interior designer, redesigned the interior of The White House during the Clinton Administration
- David Kerr, World Champion Collegiate Debater
- Jane Lucas, former director for Group Living Inc. First woman Rotary Governor in the state of Arkansas.
- Gus Malzahn, 1990, American football coach and current head football coach for Auburn University
- Nancy Mathis, opera singer
- Andy Mayberry, journalist and advertising executive, Republican former member of the Arkansas House of Representatives
- John P. McConnell, 1927, General and Chief of Staff, United States Air Force
- Sean McGrath, 2012, current American football tight end in the National Football League
- Sid McMath, two-term governor of Arkansas
- James H. Morris, 1976, Republican member of the Louisiana State House of Representatives
- Aaron Owens, 1999, former AND1 Mixtape Tour basketball player
- Reggie Ritter, 1982, former professional baseball player
- Jane Ross, co-founder of the Ross Foundation
- G. Lloyd Spencer, U.S. Senator from Arkansas
- Robert Thomas, former professional football player for the Dallas Cowboys
- Jerry Thomasson, Arkansas state representative
- Billy Bob Thornton, (attended), Academy Award-winning American screenwriter, actor as well as occasional director, playwright and singer.
- Bettye Wallace, former Henderson athletic director, tennis, and volleyball coach
- Delores White, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League baseball player
- Jeremy Williams, American player of Canadian football
- C. Vann Woodward, 1959, Sterling Professor of History at Yale University; Pulitzer Prize-winning historian
References
External links
- Official website
- Henderson State Athletics website
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