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Information Summary

Carnegie Foundation Classification

Master's Colleges and Universities (medium programs)

Undergraduate	Professions plus arts & sciences, some graduate coexistence
Graduate	Postbaccalaureate with arts & sciences (education dominant)
Undergraduate Population	Full-time four-year, selective, higher transfer-in
Enrollment	High undergraduate
Size & Setting	Medium four-year, primarily residential

General Characteristics

Highest offering	Post-master's certificate
Calendar System	Semester
Years of college work required	N/A
Variable Tuition

Special Learning Opportunities

Distance Learning
ROTC — Army / Navy / Air Force	— / /
Study Abroad
Weekend College
Teacher Certification

Student Tuition Costs and Fees

What are the typical tuition costs and fees for attending Henderson State University?

Ranks 1638th for total cost of attendance

Student Tuition Cost History and Trends

Three year history and trends on the cost of attending

	In District	In State	Out of State
Published Tuition & Fees	$4,744  $5,378	$4,744  $5,378	$9,488  $10,028

	Cost (regardless of residency)
Books & Supplies	$1,200  $1,200
On-Campus – Room & Board	$3,888  $4,274
On-Campus – Other Expenses	$3,200  $3,600
Off-Campus w/out Family – Room & Board	N/A  N/A
Off-Campus w/out Family – Other Expenses	N/A  N/A
Off-Campus with Family – Room & Board	N/A  N/A

Admission Details

Admission Criteria

What criteria does Henderson State University use for admissions?

= Required, = Recommended, = Neither required nor recommended

Open Admissions
Secondary School GPA / Rank / Record	/ /
College Prep. Completion	N/A
Recommendations	N/A
Formal competency demo	N/A
Admission test scores
TOEFL
Other tests	N/A

Admission Credits Accepted

What types of credits does Henderson State University accept?

Dual Credit
Life Experience
Advanced Placement (AP)

Athletics - Association Memberships

Student Services

Remedial Services
Academic / Career Counseling
PT Cost-defraying Employment
Career Placement
On-Campus Day Care
Library Facility

Student Living

First-time Room / Board Required
Dorm Capacity	1,071
Meals per Week	19
Room Fee	N/A
Board Fee	N/A

Student Financial Aid Details

How many students use Financial Aid, and how much do they use?

Henderson State University Ranks 4453rd for the average student loan amount.

	Average	Users	% of Attendees
Federal Grant Aid	$2,421	202	49%
State & Local Grant Aid	$1,830	55	13%
Institutional Grant Aid	$1,753	168	40%
Student Loan Aid	$2,549	336	81%
Any financial aid type		347	84%

Student Enrollment Demographics

How many students are enrolled at Henderson State University?

Student Graduation Demographics

How many students graduated at Henderson State University?

Most Popular Fields of Study

The top 5 fields of study completed at Henderson State University.

Student Completion / Graduation Demographics

How many students are successful graduates?

Accounting	1	3	1			16		21
Airline/Commercial/Professional Pilot and Flight Crew		1	1			7		9
Art Teacher Education						4		4
Art/Art Studies, General						13		13
Athletic Training/Trainer		2				3		5
Biology/Biological Sciences, General	1	1				12		14
Business Teacher Education						4		4
Business/Commerce, General	4	11	2			57		74
Chemistry, General	2					2		4
Child Care and Support Services Management
Computer and Information Sciences, General						5		5
Counselor Education/School Counseling and Guidance Services						5		5
Curriculum and Instruction	7	5				36		48
Drama and Dramatics/Theatre Arts, General						4		4
Early Childhood Education and Teaching		3		1		36		40
Education/Teaching of Individuals in Early Childhood Special Education Programs						4		4
Elementary Education and Teaching		1						1
Elementary and Middle School Administration/Principalship						8		8
English Language and Literature, General		1	1			18		20
Family and Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences, General		1			1	9		11
General Studies		4	1			15		20
History, General						6		6
Journalism		3				4		7
Junior High/Intermediate/Middle School Education and Teaching		2				13		15
Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies		1				3		4
Management Information Systems, General						1		1
Mathematics, General	1					2		3
Music Performance, General						6		6
Music, General		1				1		2
Nursing/Registered Nurse (RN, ASN, BSN, MSN)	1	1				26		28
Parks, Recreation and Leisure Facilities Management		3	1			10		14
Physical Education Teaching and Coaching		1				12		13
Physics, General						8		8
Political Science and Government, General	1	1				3		5
Psychology, General	1	3				26		30
Public Administration		3				5		8
Social Science Teacher Education						8		8
Social Work		6				12		18
Sociology		6				15		21
Spanish Language and Literature			1			3		4
Special Education and Teaching, General						4		4
Speech and Rhetorical Studies	1	2				7		10
Sport and Fitness Administration/Management	13	2				7		22
Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods, Other						13		13
Total	33	68	8	1	1	453		564

Faculty Compensation / Salaries

Henderson State University Ranks 1525th for the average full-time faculty salary.

Tenure system
Average FT Salary	$54,229 ($56,119 male / $50,642 female)
Number of FT Faculty	171 (112 male / 59 female)
Number of PT Faculty	N/A
FT Faculty Ratio	N/A
Total Benefits	$2,322,427

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Henderson State University Summary

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Henderson State University is a four-year public university located in Arkadelphia, Arkansas and serves as Arkansas’s Public Liberal Arts University. Henderson has 26 major buildings on its 145-acre main campus in Arkadelphia, which is located in an area of rivers and lakes and has been recognized as one of the “Fifty Fabulous Places to Live in America.” Henderson’s beautiful campus includes the Garrison Student Center, Henderson’s 103,000-square-foot hub of activities. Henderson’s on-campus apartment complex, Whispering Oaks, offers the most contemporary, service oriented accommodations available to college students. Henderson is devoted to selecting a diverse student body, actively recruiting, challenging, and supporting those students who are highly motivated toward achieving academic success. The International Student Center houses 27 students and provides a year-round living environment for students of different nationalities. The University is proud to be one of only 17 member institutions nationwide in COPLAC, the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges. Henderson State University’s history dates back to its founding in March of 1890, when it was incorporated as Arkadelphia Methodist College. The college opened in September of that year with over 100 students and 10 faculty members. In 1905, the name was changed to Henderson College to honor Charles Christopher Henderson, a trustee of the college and prominent businessman in Arkadelphia. From its founding in 1890 until 1925, the college also operated an academy which provided instruction for local students desiring high school courses, and for those who were not prepared to enter into college. In the late 1920s, the state-wide Arkansas Methodist conference decided that it was not necessary to operate two Methodist colleges in the state (Henderson-Brown in Arkadelphia and Hendrix in Conway). Because Hendrix was an older and more-established institution, the decision was made to merge Hendrix and Henderson-Brown into the Hendrix campus in Conway to form Hendrix-Henderson College, now known as Hendrix College. That same year, the religious leaders who had created the college arranged to surrender the campus to the state of Arkansas. The Arkansas General Assembly agreed to turn the old Methodist school into Henderson State Teachers College, the only state-supported school named for an individual. The name of the institution was changed to Henderson State College in 1967, and finally to Henderson State University in 1975. The Matt Locke Ellis College of Arts and Sciences provides a comprehensive core of courses in liberal arts at Henderson State. The college is named after the University’s 10th president, and was created in 1989 through a reorganization of three existing schools: Fine Arts, Liberal Arts, and Natural Arts. The Ellis College offers majors in disciplines from fine arts to science and technology as well as providing general education for all university students. In the fall of 2002, Henderson dedicated Roy and Christine Sturgis Hall: The Honors College. The new facility provides housing for students of the Honors College, as well as faculty offices, classrooms and labs. The Honors College program is directly involved in actively recruiting, challenging, and supporting those students who are among the most highly motivated toward achieving academic success. Hundreds of students are attraced to Teachers College, Henderson, which receives national and regional recognition for its mentor-teacher program for first-year instructors. This small town was (and still is) home to two major colleges, Henderson-Brown College (was a Methodist institution; now Henderson State University, a public institution) and Ouachita Baptist College (now Ouachita Baptist University). The college students of Henderson-Brown were mostly still asleep in the pre-dawn hours of that third day of February. An employee noticed a fire burning in the kitchen of Main Hall, the schools primary structure that included library and classroom space as well as female housing for the small Methodist college. Main Hall was replaced with College Hall in time, and the school continued to grow. Henderson-Brown College was turned over to the state of Arkansas in 1929 resulting in Henderson State Teachers College. In June of 1890, the Board of Trustees of Arkadelphia Methodist College had authorized George Childs Jones, president-elect at the age of 30, to tend to the administrative affairs so that the College could open in September as planned. During his two years at the College, Pope effected a few changes, including the addition of a military department, and the addition of bible study in all classes. Therefore, in 1904, because he held that office, he could not officially assume the official title as President of Henderson College until the expiration of his second term in 1906. When urged by friends to run again in 1909, Hinemon respectfully declined, a decision that was applauded by his Henderson College students. Henderson began a drive to change the name of Henderson College to Henderson-Brown College, to honor his business associate Walter W. Hinemon published the first list of faculty committees, established a list of officers of the college, and initiated the first football contest between Henderson and Ouachita. He encouraged students to stay, immediately arranged for temporary accommodations for the College, and was the leader of a fundraising drive to rebuild. He also separated the faculty into a College faculty and High School faculty, or Academy faculty. Remaining distinct from the College, Henderson-Brown Academy was a “high-grade” preparatory school. Evans paid tribute to Dr. Crowell, “who did more than any other person to enter the new college building only one year after the fire.” At the close of Rev. In his first address to the student body in 1926, President Hornaday had announced that scholarship would be the prime goal at Henderson-Brown College and any activities tending to hamper the accomplishment of that goal would be modified or eliminated. Although only president at Henderson-Brown College for one year, Workman’s one year would be the most historical year to date for the institution. Commencement exercises in June of 1929 marked the official close of the 39 years of the College under its sponsorship by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and the beginning of its transfer to the State of Arkansas—to become Henderson State Teachers College. Henderson State Teachers College began operation in 1929 with a faculty of 27 and an enrollment of 175. H.S.T.C., a full four-year college, would offer three degrees: Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Music, and Bachelor of Oratory. In 1931, it received first class recognition from the American Association of Teachers Colleges, and in April of 1934, it attained full membership in the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. As a result, the College was the first in the State to offer even a minor in P.E. In his three years of service to the College, President Day, in general, continued the program established by former President Womack. As part of the national defense program, Henderson State Teachers College was approved to offer instruction in flying. In 1941, the College was granting three degrees: Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Music, and Bachelor of Music Education. During his four years as president, Dr. Ellis dealt with not only the problems of a college at peacetime, but also the unusual problems of a college in wartime. To honor a contract with the Air Corps, he shifted faculty members to new assignments as the College provided facilities and instruction for the 66th College Training Detachment in 1943-44. Today, the Matt Locke Ellis College of Arts and Sciences is named in his honor. It was a period of adjustment and expansion for the College in the years after World War II, and President McBrien had supervised advances for Henderson in several areas. He established a Graduate Division for teachers to earn the Master of Science in Education degree, and coped with and solved he problem of desegregation of the College, which was done in the 1950’s. During his term, President Russell had expanded the curriculum and the physical plant of the College, and had introduced a data processing program. To enlarge the curriculum, he expanded the Division of Business, enabling the College to confer its seventh degree, the Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. The decade also saw students enroll at the College in the greatest numbers in the school’s history. Russell also initiated a major change when he reorganized the curriculum at the College from 13 divisions into 5 schools, each to be administered by a dean: Business, Education, Fine Arts, Liberal arts, and Natural Sciences and Mathematics. He also reorganized the administrative areas of the College into 4 “major areas of concern”: Instructional, Business, Public, and Student Affairs. During his administration, he approved a voluntary program in R.O.T.C., decided on official dates to be used indicating the founding of the College, and formalized a cooperative relationship with Ouachita Baptist University that eventually led to the formation, along with the Ross Foundation, of the Joint Educational Consortium in 1974. The College also changed its name to Henderson State University in 1975, signaling its progression from state college to regional university. The stronger academic program also led to the success of the Honors College, membership into the prestigious Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges, and accreditation by the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business. and “Whereas, it is appropriate to recognize Coach Carpenter’s long and loyal service to the students of Henderson State University; “Resolved, that the university’s football stadium will from this day forth be named Carpenter-Haygood Stadium in honor of Coach Carpenter.” The Henderson State University Wells Center, named for former HSU Coach Duke Wells, was erected in 1971 and has recently gone under several major renovations. The Wells Center is also home to Henderson State’s weight room, which is open to all HSU students, staff and faculty members. The intramural fields are also used by the Henderson State soccer club and the Henderson State band.

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