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F. Gregory Campbell has served as the 18th president of Carthage College since 1987.
Since Mr. Campbell's arrival at Carthage, full-time student enrollment has increased by 175 percent; the College is operating at capacity enrollment for the eleventh consecutive year. Freshman applications have more than quintupled, and average SAT/ACT scores have improved markedly.
Nearly 80 percent of the current faculty have been hired since 1987, as a result of intensive national searches. Carthage is now a leader among private colleges in the percentage of Ph.D.s on the faculty. The faculty has undertaken two major curriculum reforms during his presidency.
The College has operated with balanced budgets, and rising gift income has reflected the growing confidence of Carthage's friends and supporters. Two major gifts in recent years bear witness to this confidence: Mrs. Newton Tarble gave $11 million to the College in April 1998 for the N.E. Tarble Athletic and Recreation Center. And, Trustee Don Hedberg announced a $7 million commitment from the Hedberg Foundation in March 1999 for the Hedberg Library.
During Mr. Campbell's presidency, the endowment has grown from $10 million to more than $43 million. In addition, Carthage has invested more than $70 million in building renovations and technology acquisition.
Mr. Campbell came to Carthage from The University of Chicago, where he had been special assistant to the president, secretary of the Board of Trustees, and senior lecturer. In addition to his sixteen years in Chicago, Mr. Campbell also held administrative and/or faculty positions at Yale University and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Mr. Campbell was born in 1939 in Columbia, Tennessee. He received his bachelor's degree from Baylor University, his master's from Emory University, and his doctorate from Yale. He has done additional study and research at Philipps-Universität in Marburg/Lahn, Germany, Charles University and the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in Prague, Czechoslovakia, and the Institute for Educational Management at Harvard University.
As a historian, Mr. Campbell has specialized in international relations and Central European history. He has been awarded two Fulbright grants, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, and a Lewis-Farmington Fellowship at Yale. In 1976-77, he was a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars at the Smithsonian Institution. On three occasions over a span of twenty years, he has been selected to participate in the exchange of scholars between the United States and Czechoslovakia. The Japan Economic Foundation has included him among the international executives invited to Japan for its annual seminars.
At Carthage, Mr. Campbell has taught introductory humanities and upper-level history courses. He regularly counsels students on their plans for graduate study.
In addition to a variety of articles on European history, Mr. Campbell is the author of Confrontation in Central Europe: Weimar Germany and Czechoslovakia, published in 1975 by The University of Chicago Press and reprinted as a Midway Reprint in 1978. He is a member of several academic organizations, including the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Omicron Delta Kappa, and Phi Beta Kappa.
Mr. Campbell is an active member of St. Mary's Lutheran Church in Kenosha. He also serves the community as a director of the Kenosha Hospital and Medical Center, the Kenosha Area Business Alliance, the Kenosha County Workforce Investment Board, the Center for Advanced Technology and Innovation of Racine County, and The Prairie School in Racine, Wisconsin. He chaired the United Way of Kenosha County campaign in 2004-2005, and continues to serve on the United Way team. Most recently, he co-chaired the Independent Commission for RUSD, a group charged with analyzing the challenges facing the Racine Unified School District and providing recommendations to the citizens of Racine.
He chaired the Blue-Ribbon Citizens Commission for the Kenosha Unified School Board in 1990 and the Growth Management Task Force for Kenosha County in 1993-1994, and co-chaired the Kenosha Progress Committee, which was charged in 1997 with building a community consensus for the Harbor Park project, the development of prime lakefront land in downtown Kenosha.
Mr. Campbell is a director of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU), and the NCAA Division III Presidents Council Advisory Group. He previously served two terms as chairman of the Wisconsin Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (WAICU) and one term as secretary of the Wisconsin Foundation for Independent Colleges. He also serves as a board member of the Thrivent Mutual Funds, the Johnson Funds, Inc., the ELCA University and College Employees' Health Benefit Trust, and the ELCA Risk Management Corporation.
His main avocational interest is adventure travel. In recent years, he has climbed Africa's Mt. Kilimanjaro, hiked Inca trails to Machu Picchu in Peru and the Chilkoot Trail in Alaska, and trekked around both Mt. Blanc in the Alps and Mt. Everest.
Greg Campbell and his wife, Barbara Kuhn Campbell, have three sons: Fenton, Matthew, and Charles.
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