Hanover College's Centers of Excellence
Hanover College's Centers for Excellence provide a unique extension of the education benefits you receive in the classroom. Using the broad scope of the liberal arts, the centers enhance the life of campus in such areas as cultural broadening, vocational exploration and spiritual guidance.
The College's Centers of Excellence include the Center for Business Preparation, The Rivers Institute at Hanover College, The Center for Free Inquiry, The Center for Church Leadership and the Career Connections Program.
The Business Scholars Program (Center for Business Preparation)
Hanover College's Business Scholars Program is much more than a traditional business major. As a Business Scholar in Hanover's Center for Business Preparation, you'll develop keen analytical skills, extensive problem-solving experience and the ability to express yourself, all of which you'll be able to bring to the workplace.
Business Schoalars gain fundamental business knowledge and authentic, hands-on experience while majoring in a liberal arts field. Through experiences both in and out of the classroom, the program allows you to explore careers, apply business theories and network with outstanding Hanover alumni business leaders in a vast variety of fields. Project-based internships, case analysis and consulting projects with working businesses will open doors for your future.
Learn how you can gain the knowledge, skills and experience to get your career off to a fast start.
The Rivers Institute at Hanover College
The mission of the Rivers Institute at Hanover College (RIH) is to promote an understanding of the natural and cultural history of river environments. The RIH uses river environments to educate current and future students and the general public about environmental issues through the natural and social sciences, the arts, and the humanities.
Hanover College Students are presented, through The Rivers Institute, with unique opportunities to become involved in a variety of interdisciplinary programs. These programs provide real life experience for students and, in turn, the students will be better stewards of their environment.
The Rivers Institute at Hanover College is also committed serving the community by addressing community educational needs by bringing resources and expertise from Hanover College to the community. The goal is to encourage community involvement through exciting programming with the goal of educating the public about the natural and cultural history of river environments.
The Center for Free Inquiry
The Center for Free Inquiry explores fundamental and enduring issues utilizing the wide-ranging lens of the liberal arts. This interdisciplinary institute of the College addresses topics through a series of in-depth and varied lectures, symposia and publications.
Examining issues from a variety of angles, The Center for Free Inquiry provides an opportunity for the College community to interact with individuals who are recognized nationally as intellectual, civic or cultural leaders in the selected field of study.
The Center for Church Leadership
Hanover College's Center for Church Leadership addresses your spiritual needs and the leadership needs of regional churches and denominations through a series of interconnected and collaborative programs. The center strives to strengthen that relationship between the College and the Presbyterian Church in ways that provide mutual benefit to both.
The Center for Church Leadership's driving components focus on programs for you and ordained and lay leaders.
The CCL can help you understand your calling to either ordained or lay ministries. A campus-wide vocational mentoring program is open to all students. The College's pre-ministry program strives to identify and encourage students to pursue callings to the ministry.
The center's continuing education programs address the ongoing educational needs of ordained and lay leaders throughout the region.
Career Connections Program
Hanover College's Career Connections Program's flexible, individually-specialized efforts allow you to establish marketable career credentials while gaining the benefits of a liberal arts education.
Geared for first and second-year students, the Career Connections Program provides access to guidance in career exploration, academics, co-curricular activities and hands-on work experience. The program enables you to explore potential career paths, gain insight into a vocational identity, integrate academic and co-curricular interests into your field of study, develop work-related skills, establish networking ties and build a strong resume.
