News from Henderson State University
Henderson State University students are enjoying a well-deserved break from their studies as the university observes spring break.
University offices are open through March 21, but will be closed March 22.
Students will return and offices will reopen on March 25.
Henderson State University announced today that it has earned the 2018 Military Friendly® School designation for the second year in a row.
First published in 2009, Military Friendly Schools list is provided each year to service members and their families, helping them select the best college, university or trade school to receive the education and training needed to pursue a civilian career.
“Henderson State University has a long and rich history of serving our country’s veterans through academic and nonacademic programs,” said university President Glen Jones. “We are pleased to have been recognized for our commitment to ensuring that members of our armed forces achieve their educational goals before, during and after enlistment.”
Institutions earning the designation were evaluated using both public data sources and responses from Victory Media’s survey. Ratings methodology, criteria, and weightings were determined by Victory Media with input from the Military Friendly Advisory Council of independent leaders in the higher education and military recruitment community. Final ratings were determined by combining the institution’s survey scores with the assessment of the institution’s ability to meet thresholds for student retention, graduation, job placement, loan repayment, persistence (degree advancement or transfer) and loan default rates for all students and, specifically, for student veterans.
According to Daniel Nichols, a Navy Reserve veteran and chief product officer at Victory Media, “Our ability to apply a clear, consistent standard to the majority of colleges gives veterans a comprehensive view of which schools are striving to provide the best opportunities and conditions for our nation’s student veterans. Military Friendly® helps military families make the best use of the Post-9/11 GI Bill and other federal benefits while allowing us to further our goal of assisting them in finding success in their chosen career fields.”
Henderson State University will be showcased along with other 2018 Military Friendly Schools in the annual Guide to Military Friendly Schools, special education issues of G.I. Jobs and Military Spouse Magazine, and on militaryfriendly.com.
The fall colors on the Henderson campus are always an indication that the holiday season has arrived. The campus will be closed Wednesday, Nov. 22, through Friday, Nov. 24, for Thanksgiving. Classes will resume on Monday, Nov. 27.
Final exams begin Dec. 11, and winter commencement is Dec. 15. The campus will be closed for the Christmas/New Years holiday Dec. 25-Jan. 2.
Internationally acclaimed author Jon Ronson will speak about his book, So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, at 7 p.m. Sept. 20 in the Arkansas Hall Auditorium. His presentation is free and open to the public.
In So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, Ronson investigates the obsession with social media and its sometimes disastrous impact on lives and collective conscience.
Ronson’s books The Psychopath Test, Lost at Sea, and The Men Who Stare At Goats have all been international and/or New York Times best sellers.
The Men Who Stare At Goats has been adapted into a movie and Ronson himself has done script writing for Netflix and award winning documentaries.
For more information, go to library.hsu.edu/reddieRead.
Henderson State Athletics will pay tribute to the Armed Forces as it hosts Military Appreciation Day for Saturday’s football game with Northwestern Oklahoma with kickoff set for 6 p.m. at Carpenter-Haygood Stadium/Ruggles Field in Arkadelphia.
All active and retired military personnel and their immediate family members will be admitted to the game free of charge with the presentation of a valid Military Identification Card.
At halftime, the recipient of Henderson’s Alumni Association Vietnam Veterans Memorial Scholarship will be recognized at midfield. The scholarship will be presented earlier in the day to a Henderson Army ROTC cadet.
In honor of Military Appreciation Day, Command Sergeant Major Roderick D. Hodo will conduct the ceremonial coin toss prior to kickoff. [Read more…] about Military Appreciation Day Saturday at Henderson
For over 125 years, Henderson State University has been known as the School with a Heart. Preserving that brand – as well as the images and marks associated with our university – is a part of the mission of the Henderson State Office of Marketing and Communications.
Preserving the university’s brand is a vital part of the work done to achieve Priority Six in the Henderson State University strategic plan, Beyond the Horizon. This priority is focused on enhancing Henderson State’s regional, state and national profile. Every member of the campus community can do work toward that goal, including preserving and strengthening our university’s brand through their daily words and deeds.
In all that we do, it is important to maintain a consistent visual identity and brand standards in all communications representing Henderson State University. Strengthening our brand reinforces our commitment to education and is the responsibility of every college, department, office, and faculty and staff member.
This site focuses on our Henderson State University brand. It includes information on the proper use of university marks and messages.
Please contact the Office of Marketing and Communications if you have questions about the information presented here.
After 28 years of service to Henderson State, librarian John Ragni will be retiring at the end of the year. On December 2, we hosted a retirement reception in the Greene Room. It was well attended. Ragni spoke on his long career at Henderson State University.
I started at HSU in January 1988 as the Reference Librarian. In those days we still used the card catalog to locate books, and periodical articles were located by using print indexes. We did have access to two online databases, Dialog and BRS, but those cost money, usually in the $5 to $15 range, paid for by the user. In the late 80s I would do a few searches per month, mainly for faculty and graduate students, but by 1990 I only did two or three per year. We had one automated index when I started and that was Infotrac, which was primitive by today’s standards, and it was on just one computer. Within a few years we started to get indexes, such as ERIC, on CD-ROM, and they were loaded onto certain computers. I remember we had one personal computer for staff and we had to load the program (Word perfect or dBaseIII+) from a 5 inch floppy disc onto the computer. When Netscape became available in late 1994, that changed everything. We had a couple of computers with internet access and in those pre-Google days, AltaVista was the premier search engine. As time passed, web-based databases became available, but even in 2001 we were still getting some databases on CD-ROM.
In 1998 the Henderson Seminar program started and I taught my first of 17 classes. In 2000 the library introduced the Library Research Methods class, which was team-taught the first three years. Lea Ann Alexander, Marielle McFarland, Linda Wen, and I taught the class the first three years, and then in 2003 I became the sole instructor. Only six students took the class the first three years it was offered, but in 2003 the Sociology department allowed the class to satisfy one of their requirements for a degree, and in 2004 the new General Studies degree included the class in its critical thinking component. I set the enrollment cap at 15 students and the cap has been reached 10 out of the last 12 years, including the last 7 years.
As a former collegiate tennis player, I was interested in getting involved with the Henderson team, and it wasn’t long before I was working with the men’s team in my spare time. During the first year I was the de facto coach, and in 1989 I became the official coach of the team. I coached the team until 1996. In 2005 I started working with the HSU women’s team and in recent years I have been instrumental not only in recruiting the top players, but establishing a pipeline to recruit top players every year.
Henderson State held its inaugural Foundation Scholarship Reception Sept. 24. More than 250 students received scholarship support through the generosity of alumni and friends of the university. The reception provided the opportunity for many donors to meet their scholarship recipients. VIEW MORE PHOTOS