Tusculum Pioneers
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| Motto |
Sit Lux (Latin) ("Let there be light") |
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| Type | Private |
| Established | 1794 |
| Endowment | US$15.7 million |
| President | Nancy B. Moody, DSN |
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Administrative staff
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272 |
| Undergraduates | 2,446 |
| Postgraduates | 159 |
| Location | Tusculum, Tennessee, United States |
| Campus | Rural, 140 acres (0.57 km2) |
| Colors | Orange and Black |
| Athletics |
NCAA Division II South Atlantic Conference 14 sports teams |
| Mascot | Pioneers |
| Affiliations | Presbyterian Church (USA) |
| Website | www |
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Tusculum College Historic District
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| Location | U.S. 11 and TN 107, Tusculum, Tennessee |
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| Coordinates | 36°10′25″N 82°45′41″W / 36.17361°N 82.76139°WCoordinates: 36°10′25″N 82°45′41″W / 36.17361°N 82.76139°W |
| Area | 18.5 acres (7.5 ha) |
| Architect | Sullivan,Louis H., et al. |
| Architectural style | Colonial Revival, Late Victorian, Georgian Revival |
| NRHP Reference # | 80003800 |
| Added to NRHP | November 25, 1980 |
Tusculum College is a coeducational private college affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA), with its main campus in the city of Tusculum, Tennessee, United States, a suburb of the town of Greeneville. It is Tennessee's oldest college and the 23rd-oldest operating college in the United States.
In addition to its main campus, the institution maintains a regional center for Graduate and Professional Studies in Knoxville, and additional satellite campuses across East Tennessee.
Before Tennessee became a state in 1796, the east Tennessee area was the southwestern frontier of the United States.Presbyterian ministers Hezekiah Balch and Samuel Doak, both educated at the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University), were there, ministering to early Scots-Irish settlers.
Striving to meet the settlers' educational needs, Doak founded St. Martins Academy in 1783 and it expanded to become Washington College in 1795. Washington College was later renamed "Tusculum College." Balch helped found Greeneville College in 1795.
Doak and Balch sought the same goals through their separate colleges. They wanted to educate settlers of the American frontier so that they would become better Presbyterians, and therefore, in their thinking, better citizens. To better accomplish their common goals, Greeneville College and Tusculum College merged in 1868 to become Greeneville & Tusculum College.
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