Lindsey Wilson College is a four-year
liberal-arts college affiliated with the Kentucky Conference of The
United Methodist Church. LWC is located on more than 200 partially
wooded acres on a hilltop in Columbia, Ky., a small town about 20
miles from Lake Cumberland in South Central Kentucky. William T.
Luckey Jr. is LWC's eighth president, and John B. Begley is
chancellor. Under President Luckey's leadership, LWC's operating
budget has been dramatically expanded to more than $54 million, and
the number of faculty and staff has grown to more than 300.
Lindsey Wilson is classified as a Baccalaureate College-Liberal
Arts by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
Institutions placed in that category are primarily undergraduate
colleges that emphasize undergraduate teaching,
baccalaureate-degree programs and award at least half of their
baccalaureate degrees in the liberal arts. Lindsey Wilson is one of
five Kentucky institutions to be classified as a Baccalaureate
College-Liberal Arts.
Demographics about the college can be found in our annual Factbook.