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Hendrix Alumni Selected for Arkansas Teacher Corps

CONWAY, Ark. (June 16, 2014) – Four Hendrix alumni were chosen for the Arkansas Teacher Corps. A competitive program similar to Teach For America, the Arkansas Teacher Corps began last year.

Hendrix graduates selected for the Arkansas Teacher Corps include:

  • Mary Beth Breshears ’14, studio art
  • Chris Collier ’81, political science
  • Victoria Hilliard ’14, biology
  • Jeremy Schulze ’14, psychology

After six weeks of summer training, they will teach in public schools that are in high need of teachers.

Earlier this spring, recent graduates and politics and international relations majors Ben Ault and Sarah Salazar were chosen for Teach For America. Ault will teach special education secondary English in Baltimore, Md., and Salazar will teach eighth-grade mathematics in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

Founded in 1876, Hendrix College is a national leader in engaged liberal arts and sciences education. For the sixth consecutive year, Hendrix was named one of the country’s “Up and Coming” liberal arts colleges by U.S. News and World Report.  Hendrix is featured in the latest edition of Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change the Way You Think about Colleges, as well as the 2014 Princeton Review’s The Best 378 Colleges, Forbes magazine's list of America's Top Colleges, and the 2014 Fiske Guide to Colleges. Hendrix has been affiliated with the United Methodist Church since 1884. For more information, visit www.hendrix.edu