Office of the President

President F. Gregory Campbell

F. Gregory Campbell is the 18th president of Carthage.

Since Mr. Campbell's arrival at Carthage in 1987, full-time student enrollment has increased by more than 200 percent; the College is operating at capacity enrollment for the twelfth consecutive year. Freshman applications have more than septupled, and average SAT/ACT scores have improved markedly.

More than 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. New construction and major renovations bear witness to this confidence; over the past decade alone, Carthage has invested more than $100 million in capital projects and technology acquisition. In addition, the endowment has grown from $10 million to more than $43 million.

Prior to his arrival at Carthage, Mr. Campbell served for 16 years at The University of Chicago, where he had been special assistant to the president, secretary of the Board of Trustees, and senior lecturer. 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-University 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 participated 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, and The Prairie School in Racine, Wis. 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 member of the NCAA Division III Presidents Council Advisory Group. He also serves as a board member of the Thrivent Mutual Funds, the Optique Funds, Inc. He previously served as a director of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU), served two terms as chairman of the Wisconsin Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (WAICU), one term as secretary of the Wisconsin Foundation for Independent Colleges, and several years on 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 grown sons: Fenton, Matthew, and Charles.

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