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Creating a Lasting Impact at Hendrix College
Major gifts and endowments provide enduring support for the people, programs, and opportunities that define the Hendrix experience. Through endowed scholarships, academic programs, faculty support, and campus initiatives, donors help ensure that future generations of students have access to the transformative liberal arts education that has distinguished Hendrix for 150 years.
Whether you wish to support student success, strengthen a favorite academic program, or create a lasting family legacy, major gifts offer meaningful opportunities to shape the future of Hendrix College.
What is the Hendrix College Endowment?
The Hendrix College endowment serves as a permanent source of support for the College’s mission. Endowed funds are invested to generate annual income while preserving the principal, allowing each gift to provide benefits for generations to come.
Endowment support helps Hendrix:
- Expand access to a Hendrix education through scholarships and financial aid.
- Strengthen academic programs and innovative learning opportunities.
- Support faculty excellence and student research.
- Provide long-term financial stability for the College.
- Sustain programs that enrich the student experience both inside and outside the classroom.
Endowed Giving Opportunities
Endowed gifts provide lasting support for the students, programs, and experiences that define Hendrix College. Explore the opportunities below to learn how your investment can create a permanent legacy through scholarships, academic programs, faculty support, and other transformative initiatives.
Scholarships are among the most direct and meaningful ways to impact the lives of Hendrix students.
More than 230 endowed scholarships help make a Hendrix education accessible to talented students from a wide range of backgrounds. New endowed scholarships may be established with gifts of $50,000 or more and can reflect donor interests, including academic disciplines, geographic regions, leadership potential, financial need, or other criteria.
Many scholarships are created to honor or memorialize individuals whose values and legacy continue to inspire future generations of students.
Examples of Endowed Scholarships
- James Russell Gill III and Julia Farnham McMahon Endowed Scholarship — preference for students from Northwest or Northeast Arkansas
- Carole Herrick Endowed Scholarship — preference for music majors
- James Jennings Endowed Scholarship — preference for students from Arkansas’s Delta region
- Joyce Hardin Endowed Scholarship in Environmental Studies — preference for environmental studies majors
Endowed program funds support the distinctive opportunities that set a Hendrix education apart. These gifts provide ongoing resources for research, internships, travel, service experiences, community engagement, and innovative academic initiatives.
Established through gifts of $50,000 or more, these endowments support student and faculty projects in research, service, professional development, and global engagement. Since 2005, Hendrix students and faculty have received more than $4 million in program and research funding.
Endowment support advances the Miller Center’s work helping students explore purpose, leadership, service, and ethical decision-making throughout their college experience.
Endowed gifts help ensure that exhibitions, educational programs, and community engagement opportunities remain accessible to all visitors at no cost.
Endowed gifts represent a lasting investment in Hendrix College, its students, and its mission. Whether your passion is student scholarships, academic excellence, faculty support, or transformative learning opportunities, our Advancement team can help you explore giving options that align with your philanthropic goals.
Contact the Office of Advancement
For more information about giving, please contact the Office of Advancement.
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