Henderson State University, founded in 1890 as Arkadelphia Methodist College, is a four-year public liberal arts university located in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, United States. It is Arkansas's only member of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges. Henderson's curricula based on the belief that a liberal arts education is essential for all undergraduates; Henderson utilizes a program based on a core of courses in the arts and sciences. The school owns and operates radio station KSWH-FM, as well as the local Public-access television cable TV channel, HTV on Suddenlink's channel 9. Henderson State University, was founded on March 23, 1890 as Arkadelphia Methodist College. The university was renamed for Charles Christopher Henderson, and was also named for Walter William Brown as Henderson-Brown University, but the Brown has since been removed. Henderson State was offered to the state of Arkansas in 1929 in an effort to prevent merging with Hendrix College in Conway. Dr. Charles Welch became Henderson State University’s 15th president in 2008. One of his first acts was to hire Dr. Vernon Miles as the university's provost.