Louisiana College Wildcats and Lady Wildcats
| Motto | Deo, Veritati, Patriae |
|---|---|
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Motto in English
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God, Truth, Country |
| Type | Private |
| Established | October 3, 1906 |
| Affiliation | Baptist |
| Endowment | US$27,064,817 |
| President | Rick Brewer (effective April 7, 2015) |
| Students | 1,265 (Fall 2014) |
| Location | Pineville, Louisiana, US |
| Colors | Orange and Royal Blue |
| Athletics | NCAA Division III – ASC |
| Nickname | Wildcats / Lady Wildcats |
| Affiliations |
Louisiana Baptist Convention CCCU |
| Sports | 18 varsity teams (men's & women's) |
| Website | lacollege.edu |
| University rankings | |
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| Baccalaureate | |
| Washington Monthly | 106 |
| Regional | |
| U.S. News & World Report | RNP (South) |
Louisiana College is a private institution of higher education located in Pineville, in the central portion of the U.S. state of Louisiana. Affiliated with the Louisiana Baptist Convention, it serves approximately 1,300 students. The college operates on a semester system along with two shorter summer terms. Although the college is affiliated with a group of Southern Baptist churches, who make up the membership of the Louisiana Baptist Convention, students need not be a member of that denomination to attend.
The school colors are orange and blue, and their athletics teams are known as the Wildcats and Lady Wildcats.
Louisiana College, known as "LC", was founded on October 3, 1906, in Pineville, across the Red River from the larger Alexandria. The college began in tents with four professor and nineteen students. Since 2006, LC has reported an enrollment growth of 50 percent.
Baptist clergyman and educator Edwin O. Ware, Sr., is considered to have been the principal founder of the institution. He was from 1906 to 1907 the LC financial agent and its first president from 1908 to 1909. LC is the successor to two earlier Louisiana Baptist schools, Mount Lebanon College, sometimes called Mount Lebanon University, and Keatchie Female College. The first, a men's school founded in 1852 by the North Louisiana Baptist Convention, was located in the community of Mount Lebanon in Bienville Parish. The women's college, founded in 1857 by the Grand Cane Association of Baptist Churches, was located in the community of Keatchie in De Soto Parish south of Shreveport. After a history beset by financial difficulties, both schools came under the control of the Louisiana Baptist Convention in 1899. An Education Commission was selected by the state convention to administer the schools with the understanding that both would be succeeded by a more centrally located institution as soon as a suitable campus could be selected. When Louisiana College was opened in 1906, Mount Lebanon College closed, followed by Keatchie a few years later. Since the first class of nineteen students in 1906, more than ten thousand have graduated from the institution.
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