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Carthage College is a 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 on the shore of Lake Michigan and is home to 2,180 full-time and 750 part-time students.
Carthage awards the Bachelor of Arts degree with majors in more than 30 subject areas, and the Master of Education degree. Carthage also hosts the joint Executive MBA and Master of Social Work degrees awarded by Loyola University Chicago.
The Carthage faculty comprises more than 120 scholars, 90 percent of whom hold the doctorate or other terminal degree.
[edit] History
German Lutherans founded Carthage in 1847 in Hillsboro, Illinois as The Literary and Theological Institute of the Lutheran Church of the Far West. In 1852 the college moved to Springfield, Illinois and operated under the name Illinois State University. However, the college closed in 1869 due to budgetary reasons. In 1870 the college was reopened as Carthage College in Carthage, Illinois. Due to dwindling enrollment numbers during the 1950s, Carthage decided to open another campus in Kenosha, Wisconsin in 1962, intending to eventually relocate the college there. The Wisconsin and Illinois campuses ran simultaneously until 1964, when the Illinois campus closed its doors and the college and its old traditions were moved to Wisconsin. This was the cause of much discontent among students at the Illinois campus who were long under the impression that the Illinois and Wisconsin campuses would both be operated by Carthage. In the last five years, a new state of the art library (Hedberg Library) and athletic center (Tarble Athletic and Recreation Center) have been opened, and the campus welcomed a renovation of the old library which turned it into the Clausen Center for World Business. In the new student village overlooking Lake Michigan, The Oaks, one new residence hall was completed in 2006, another will be complete in May 2007. Construction on a third will commence in June 2007. The new residences feature semi-private suites, cooking facilities, and media lounges on each floor.
[edit] Red Men Athletics
In 2005, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) ruled that Carthage, along with several other colleges throughout the United States would be ineligible to host NCAA-sanctioned playoffs and tournaments because their nickname, "Redmen", was perceived as an offensive reference to Native Americans.
Recently a decision has been made to rename the Carthage men's teams the "Red Men". The revised presentation reconnects with the circa 1920 origin of the name--the team's red uniform jersey--while removing any possible controversial connotations. In conjunction with the rearticulation of the name, a new logo for the team has replaced the traditional feathered Carthage C. The new logo includes a torch, a shield and a C.
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