Georgetown College

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Georgetown College

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Established	1829
Type	Private
President	Dr. William H. Crouch Jr.
Faculty	130
Undergraduates	1,334
Postgraduates	501
Location	Georgetown, KY, USA
Campus	Rural
Mascot	Tigers
Website	www.georgetowncollege.edu

Note: Georgetown University is a separate and unaffiliated institution located in Washington, D.C..

Georgetown College is a small, private liberal arts college located in Georgetown, Kentucky. Chartered as a college in 1829, Georgetown College traces its origins to the Royal Springs (later Rittenhouse) Academy, founded 1787 by Baptist minister Elijah Craig, inventor of bourbon. Georgetown College offers many undergraduate degrees and a Master of Arts in Education. This school should not be confused with Georgetown University; a different school located in Washington, D.C..

The school's sports teams are called the Tigers and they participate in the NAIA and the Mid-South Conference.

The school's football field and East Campus residences are also the location of the Cincinnati Bengals summer training camp.

1 Student organizations
2 Religious Affiliation
3 Maskrafters
4 External links

[edit] Student organizations

Georgetown College has an independent brotherhood known as the President's House Association. It also has four national fraternities (Kappa Alpha Order, Lambda Chi Alpha, Phi Kappa Tau and Pi Kappa Alpha) and four national sororities (Alpha Gamma Delta, Kappa Delta, Phi Mu and Sigma Kappa) on campus.

[edit] Religious Affiliation

Georgetown College, historically linked with the Kentucky Baptist Convention, has recently changed its relationship with the Convention. The college retains its Baptist heritage, and is still affiliated with the KBC, but no longer receives money from the Convention and in return retains the right to elect its own trustees without the Convention's approval. [1]

[edit] Maskrafters

The Georgetown College Maskrafter theatre group is the oldest collegiate theatre company in Kentucky and offers traditional theatre, an emphasis on creating original work, and new initiatives in digital motion picture art.

[edit] External links

Georgetown College web page

Mid-South Conference
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