students are enrolled, mostly undergraduates. While affiliated with the United Methodist Church, the college offers a secular curriculum and has a student body composed of people from many different religious backgrounds. Hendrix is a member of the Associated Colleges of the South.
== History ==
Hendrix College was founded as a primary school called "Central Institute" in 1876 at Altus, Arkansas, by Rev. Isham L. Burrow. In 1881 it was renamed "Central Collegiate Institute" when secondary and collegiate departments were added. The next year the first graduating collegiate class, composed of three women, were awarded Mistress of English Literature degrees. In 1884, three conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South purchased the school. This began the school's relationship with the Methodist Episcopal Church, South and later The Methodist Church and the United Methodist Church. The Central Collegiate Institute was renamed "Hendrix College" in 1889 in honor of Rev. Eugene Russell Hendrix, a presiding …
