Survival: Carroll College is fit as it hits 150; Carroll campus at a glance School name: Carroll College. Location: 100 N. East Ave., Waukesha. Campus: Thirty buildings; 11 major classroom buildings; six major residence halls and several smaller houses; a library with more than 182,000 volumes, on-line databases and the Norman F. FitzGerald Civil War Collection of 1861-'65 books and documents, one of the largest in Wisconsin; a music center seating 1,350; a modern theater arts building, upon which an addition for other arts programs and a chapel are being built this year; up-to-date athletic facilities for men and women; and a 60-acre "outdoor laboratory" nine miles from campus. Buildings and equipment are valued at about $75 million. Faculty: About 75 full time and 25 part time. Those are included in the approximately 390 employees at Carroll who total an annual payroll of $8 million. Class size: Class size averages 25 to 30 students in introductory courses and 10 to 20 in advanced courses. Financial: Room and board for 1995-'96, $16,880, and for 1996-'97, $17,400; tuition alone is $12,740 this year and $13,190 next year. About 90% of students receive financial aid, with awards ranging from $200 to $12,000. Alumni: About 5,000 of Carroll's 8,000 Wisconsin alumni reside in southeastern Wisconsin. Of those, 4,600 live and work in Waukesha and Milwaukee counties.; College namesake disputed Some historians dispute Carroll College's namesake. While Eleazar Root, a founding father of the school, suggested it was named after Charles Carroll, who was allegedly the only noted signer of the Declaration of Independence without a college named in his honor, others later wondered about Root's true intentions. Some researchers believe Root might have actually named the school after a close friend, Daniel Carroll, whom he tried to recruit as president when the school was losing financial and student support late in 1847. Carroll was a well-to-do Presbyterian from Brooklyn who Root hoped would help secure strong reserves for the school. Naming a school after a real or potential benefactor was a common practice in college founding, according to historian Ellen Langill, in her book "Carroll College: The First Century, 1846-1946." Langill, who was an assistant professor of history at Carroll during the book's publication in 1980, now teaches history at the University of Wisconsin Center-Waukesha County.