■ College Profile: HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE Editor’s Note: This is a continuing series profi ling Virginia’s colleges and universities.


Students walk to class at Hampden-Sydney, one of only three men’s four-year colleges in the nation.


Hampden-Sydney College at a glance


Founded


1775 (10th oldest college in the United States). Patrick Henry and James Madison were among its first trustees.


Location


The college is on a 1,340-acre wooded campus, six miles south of Farmville. Thirty-two major buildings are in the Federal style. Much of the campus has been designated a National Historic Preservation Zone.


Enrollment • Total: 1,087 • Freshmen: 305


• Students from: 32 states and 11 foreign countries


• Student/faculty Ratio: 10:1


• Residency: 96 percent on campus


Centers of Excellence


• Wilson Center for Leadership in the Public Interest


• The Flemming Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation


Costs • Tuition and fees: $42,368


• Room and board: $14,316 (estimate for double occupancy dorm room, unlimited meal plan, and technology fee)


Athletics • NCAA Division III


• Intercollegiate teams in baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, lacrosse, rugby, soccer, swimming and tennis


• Club teams in fencing, lacrosse, soccer, Ultimate Frisbee, water polo and triathlon


• Intramural sports in which 65 percent of the students participate


On the Web: www.hsc.edu 58 JUNE 2017


Doubling down W


hen Larry Stimpert’s grand- father ran the family’s Illi- nois farm, it was an embodi-


ment of diversity. It had sheep, cows, hay, oats, corn, soybeans and orchards. “It was a very sustainable kind of


thing,” Stimpert says. “Today, my cousins farm the farm, and it’s just corn and soybeans. Nothing else.”


For decades, American agriculture


has held up farms like the one run by Stimpert’s cousins as the model, mass producing raw materials for foodstuffs to efficiently feed a growing population. That’s still a profitable way to farm, and it’s still the dominant approach to agriculture in the United States. But a growing number of people, including


Photo by Mark Rhodes


Hampden-Sydney president thinks the world needs his college now more than at any time in its history by Tim Thornton


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