Carthage College
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| Motto | Seeking truth. Building strength. Inspiring service. Together. |
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| Type | Private liberal arts college |
| Established | 1847 |
| Affiliation | Evangelical Lutheran Church in America |
| Endowment | $81.0 million |
| President | Dr. Gregory Woodward |
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Academic staff
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150 |
| Students | 2,600 |
| Location | Kenosha, Wisconsin, United States of America |
| Nickname | Red Men and Lady Reds |
| Website | www.carthage.edu |
Carthage College is a four-year private liberal arts college affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Situated in Kenosha, Wisconsin midway between Chicago, Illinois and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the campus is an 80-acre arboretum on the shore of Lake Michigan and is home to 2,600 full-time and 400 part-time students.
Carthage awards bachelor's degrees with majors in more than 40 subject areas, as well as the Master of Education degree.
The Carthage faculty comprises nearly 150 scholars, 90 percent of whom hold the doctorate or other terminal degree. Gregory S. Woodward is the president of Carthage, the 22nd in its history.
Carthage College was founded in 1847 by Lutheran pioneers in education in the small town of Hillsboro, Illinois as The Literary and Theological Institute of the Lutheran Church in the Far West. The name was soon shortened to Hillsboro College. With a two-person faculty and 79 students, Hillsboro promised “a course of study designed to be thorough and practical, and to embrace all the branches of learning, usually pursued in the best academies and colleges.”
In 1852, the college moved to Springfield, Illinois and assumed the name of Illinois State University. During this period, Abraham Lincoln served briefly on the Board of Trustees from 1860 to 1861, while his son Robert Todd Lincoln was a student in Illinois State University’s preparatory department from 1853 to 1859. Illinois State University’s enrollment dwindled during the Civil War, and in 1870 the college moved again, this time to the rural, west-central city of Carthage, Illinois, where the college acquired its current name.
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