关于 John Swallow
The 24th president of Carthage College, John R. Swallow is a strategic, 关系, entrepreneurial leader dedicated to improving education through liberal arts institutions.
In the five years since, he has led Carthage’s evolution, both in the education it offers and how it organizes itself to offer that education. The resulting achievements, which he credits to the great work of an outstanding faculty and 工作人员 and a committed and supportive board, include record first-year enrollments, fundraising levels nearly twice as high, the strong endorsement of alumni in a recent survey. President Swallow often remarks that, since its founding in 1847, Carthage has a distinguished 历史 of evolution, more than that of many similar institutions, finds in that ongoing evolution the source of its success. Carthage is now as strong as it has ever been, aspires to increase its reach and impact more than ever before.
In 2018 President Swallow oversaw the launch of The Aspire Program™, a comprehensive, four-year career development program for all undergraduates, deploying a $15 million gift. In 2019, determined to make a Carthage education accessible to the widest possible pool of talented students, he stood up for cost transparency and lowered Carthage’s “sticker price” by 30 percent. That year he also began the ongoing introduction of new curricular and co-curricular programs, which have now included undergraduate majors in 盟军的健康, 数据科学, 工程, game development, 剧本创作，特别的 bachelor’s of music programs in piano performance and collaborative piano, 音乐教育, 音乐剧; master’s degrees in athletic training, sports management, 音乐教育学, including a track in music theatre vocal pedagogy; and four new varsity athletic teams, including Carthage’s first coed team, in esports.
“We have thought deeply about how we can best serve our students as they pursue their education and dreams. Carthage focuses on developing in our students high-value practical skills, but also boundless intellectual curiosity. Students discover their curiosity at Carthage.” — President John Swallow
In 2020 he committed Carthage to eliminate equity gaps by 2030 as part of the Moon Shot for 股本, establishing a leadership position for Carthage in this important work, he announced a substantial Anti-Racism Plan of Action. Under his leadership, Carthage established its first alumni affinity group, the Wiggan-Kinniebrew Black 校友 Network, held celebrations for 150 Years of Carthage Women and 75 Years of Black Excellence. These efforts included campaigns that raised nearly $10 million for related work, doubled the number of women on the Board of Trustees, doubled the number of board members of color. In 2021 the College formally replaced its team names Red Men and Lady Reds with 火鸟. 这样做的时候, Carthage inaugurated a new identity that goes beyond athletics to unite all students and represent the fullness of liberal arts, 反映了, 例如, by incorporating Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite in some formal events. In 2022-2023 Carthage eliminated equity gaps in first to second semester retention, which reached an all-time high and did not differ by race or income (as defined by Pell grant eligibility).
President Swallow has consistently prioritized Carthage’s reorganizing and renewing itself for the future, always focused on meeting student needs and interests. In 2022 he led fundraising for a new home and expanded 工作人员ing for the College’s Health and Counseling Center, brought together several academic departments to inaugurate a new School of Business and Economics, recruited a new food service provider to set a new standard of quality. Behind the scenes, new software systems for student success and advancement have been installed, a new enterprise resource planning system is well on its way to full implementation, a variety of needed building system replacements are taking place.
President Swallow sees these many steps as laying the strongest possible foundation for Carthage’s future, is confident the years ahead will bring Carthage to a greater reach and impact than ever before.
President Swallow’s entrepreneurial approach is grounded in his deep interests in developments in business, higher education, the wider nonprofit sector, including economic development and workforce development. He is the past chair of the Higher Education Regional Alliance of 18 postsecondary institutions enrolling over 125,000 students in seven Wisconsin counties, together with over 10 additional partner organizations. He has served as chair of the board of the 出赛 Area Business Alliance and now sits on the Leadership Council of the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce, as well as on the leadership tables of two StriveTogether organizations, Building our Future in 出赛 County and Higher Expectations for Racine County.
President Swallow’s board service includes eight years on the board of Agnes Scott College, a women’s college in Decatur, 乔治亚州, that is recognized nationally for innovation, social mobility, students’ first-year experience; for 10 years as trustee and regent, including as board secretary, of his alma mater, The University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee; and as a board member of the Council of Independent Colleges.
President Swallow left high school before graduating in order to enroll at The University of the South at the age of 15. He graduated in 1989 with honors in both English literature and mathematics, then pursued his graduate studies at Yale, from which he holds two master’s degrees and a Ph.D., all in mathematics. Recognized early for his teaching and scholarship, he held the John T. Kimbrough chair in mathematics at Davidson College in North Carolina, teaching mathematics and interdisciplinary humanities there for 17 years, winning its Omicron Delta Kappa Teaching Award in 2010. Committed to intercultural education, he spent sabbatical years at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and Université Bordeaux I. After beginning his career at Davidson, he was recruited in 2011 to return to his alma mater by John McCardell, former president of Middlebury College and then vice-chancellor and president of Sewanee. 在Sewanee, Swallow served as provost, later executive vice president and chief operating officer, before assuming the presidency of Carthage.
President Swallow has published articles in The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Huffington Post, Inside Higher Ed, The Hechinger Report, as well as an undergraduate textbook and more than two dozen research articles in mathematics, many with former undergraduate honors students. In the last two years, three such co-authored research articles were published, two more are accepted for publication.
他的妻子, 卡梅隆, has extensive experience as a secondary school math and English teacher, as well as teaching French, 历史, 和戏剧. In 2018 she became Wisconsin’s state co-coordinator for 勇敢的天使, a nationwide effort to depolarize political conversation, she also serves as a board member for several area not-for-profits. 夫人. Swallow is part of bluegrass band Flat Creek Highway, which plays at venues across the region.
The couple has two grown children, Bard and Sophie, a basset hound, Watson.
