Welcome to Indiana's oldest
private for your college.
Welcome to Hanover College.
I'm joined by Peter Ashley,
the vice president of
enrollment and marketing here.
First of all, Peter,
thanks for having us.
And it's just a beautiful campu.
I mean, that's the first thing
you noticed when you arrive.
It's just stunning,
has these epic views kind
of give us an overview.
Thanks for being here.
It's wonderful to have you.
The Hanover College campus is spectacular.
It sits on 650 acres
overlooking the Ohio River.
We have incredible views of the river,
in fact, one of the only places you can
see all three bends of the Ohio River.
We have miles of hiking trails,
tons of wooded areas,
beautiful open spaces.
It is one of the major things
people say when they come here.
It's just how beautiful it is.
So we're very proud of that.
We love to highlight that and s,
so glad you're to see it.
This
is Indiana's oldest
private four year college.
I mean that's it's a huge distinction
obviously and So what does thatn
to you all and what does that bg
even for the students that come
here? Well in a in a market in n
environment where higher education is
you know challenging to say we've been
here for nearly 200 years says we're,
we're going to be here for a long time.
1827 was our founding and so we're coming
up rapidly on our Bicentennial in 2027.
So we're excitedly preparing for that.
And it just says we're, we're stable,
we're solid, we've been here a long time,
we're committed to the area
and it means for the students,
a long list of alumni,
tons of connections to the community.
And it's just a great thing
for us to be able to say,
of course, your academics are incredible.
Let's talk through some of that.
The academic programs that
you offer, sure. So we are
a classic liberal arts college,
but we also have very strong
programs in business, engineeri,
a lot of Health Sciences progra.
32 majors and people can design
their own major as well to study
all kinds of things they want t.
So we have a small campus
but lots of opportunities.
One thing we're we're excited about is our
recent re foray into graduate programs.
So two years ago we launched a doctor
physical therapy program and thn
this past year we we're launchia
Doctor of Occupational therapy program.
And those are our first graduate
programs in more than 100 years.
So we're very excited to be offering that
to build on our Health Sciences programs.
And beyond academics,
there's so much to do outside te
classroom here as well, right?
Yes. And many of the classes, actually,
they take their students outsid.
If they're studying biology
or they're studying ecology,
they can go out to the campus oe
650 acres and explore and actuay
experience nature and study that way.
We're also very close to
the downtown of Madison,
which is one of the most charmi.
Downtown's in America.
It's got the longest contiguous
historic designation in the cou.
And so our students spend time there and
we are only about an hour from Louisville,
an hour from Cincinnati,
an hour and a half from Indianapolis.
So we have that benefit of being
sort of a rural, isolated,
intimate campus.
But we're also accessible to ma,
many things.
How do you serve students in, l,
what does that mean exactly, toe
sure you're serving them and they're,
they're having in this experience here?
Well, that's the benefit of a
small college, right? You have.
A very good faculty to student
ratio that really gets the studs
the opportunity to learn from
and and grow with the faculty.
Many of our faculty and staff
live on or around campus.
We have an office of student sus
that's fully dedicated to helpig
all students succeed academical,
socially, emotionally,
all kinds of support for that.
And we're just committed to those students.
How can an education here
transform a student's life?
Well, we've seen it over and over again,
transforming a student's life at Hanover.
Higher education in general.
Studies show all the time that the benefit
of a college education really changes
the directive of your life at Hanover.
Because we are small,
we are intimate, liberal arts.
We train people for an
entire lifetime of careers.
They come to Hanover,
they discern what they want to .
They can study all kinds of thi.
They get all kinds of exposure d
experience and they take that into the world,
able to adapt, able to thrive.
And it just makes the trajectory
of life completely different.
And we have some wonderfully famous alumni,
we have some a lot of successful alumni.
And we're,
we're proud of all of our studes
and we do see that transformatin
happen as they are.
Here,
here, thanks for showing us around. Sure.
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