Beloit College

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Beloit College
Beloit seal.png
MottoScientia Vera Cum Fide Pura (Latin)
Motto in English
True knowledge with pure faith
Type Private liberal arts college
Established1846;179 years ago (1846)
Accreditation HLC
Academic affiliations
 ACM
Oberlin Group
CLAC
WAICU
Endowment $113 million in 2021
President Eric Boynton [1]
Academic staff
94
Undergraduates 964 (2022) [2]
Location
Beloit
,
Wisconsin
,
U.S.

42°30′11″N89°01′52″W / 42.503°N 89.031°W / 42.503; -89.031
CampusUrban, 65 acres (26.3 ha)
Colors Blue and gold
  
Sporting affiliations
 NCAA Division III – MWC
MascotBuccaneer (official), turtle (unofficial)
Website www.beloit.edu
Beloit Logo.png

Beloit College is a private liberal arts college in Beloit, Wisconsin, United States. Founded in 1846 when Wisconsin was still a territory, [3] it is the state's oldest continuously operated college. It has an enrollment of roughly 1,000 undergraduate students. [2]

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History

Beloit College was founded by the group Friends for Education, which was started by seven pioneers from New England who, soon after their arrival in the Wisconsin Territory, agreed that a college needed to be established. The group raised funds for a college in their town and convinced the territorial legislature to enact the charter for Beloit College on February 2, 1846. The first building (then called Middle College) was built in 1847, and remains in operation. Classes began in the fall of 1847, with the first degrees awarded in 1851.

Beloit's first president was Aaron Lucius Chapin, who served from 1849 to 1886. [4]

The college became coeducational in 1895. [5] In 1904, Grace Ousley became the first African-American woman to graduate from the college. [6]

Although independent today, Beloit College was historically, though unofficially, associated with Congregationalism. [7]

The college remained very small for almost its entire first century, with enrollment topping 1,000 students only with the influx of World War II veterans in 1945–46. The "Beloit Plan" was a year-round curriculum introduced in 1964 that comprised three full terms and a "field term" of off-campus study. [3] The trustees returned to the two-semester program in 1978.

Campus

Beloit College

Beloit's campus is within the Near East Side Historic District. [8]

The campus has 20 conical, linear, and animal effigy mounds built between about 400 and 1200, created by Native Americans identified by archaeologists as Late Woodland people. [9] [10] One of the mounds, in the shape of a turtle, inspired Beloit's symbol and unofficial mascot. The mounds on Beloit's campus are "catalogued" burial sites, and therefore may not be disturbed without a Wisconsin Historical Society permit. Several of the Beloit College sites have been partially excavated and restored, and material found within them—including pottery and tool fragments—is held in the college's Logan Museum of Anthropology. [9]

In 2008 Beloit College completed a 120,000 sq ft (11,000 m2) Center for the Sciences, which was named the Marjorie and James Sanger Center for the Sciences in 2017. [11] The building was awarded LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) green building certification. [12] It also won a Design Excellence Honor Award in Interior Architecture from the Chicago chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) in 2009. [12]

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Marjorie and James Sanger Center for the Sciences

In 2010, Beloit College opened the Hendricks Center for the Arts, a 58,000-square-foot (5,400 m2) structure with dance, music, and theater facilities. The building previously held the Beloit Post Office and later the Beloit Public Library. The renovation and expansion of the facility is the largest single gift in the college's history. The building is named after Diane Hendricks, chair of ABC Supply of Beloit, and her late husband and former college trustee Ken Hendricks. [13]

Two Beloit campus museums open to the public are run by college staff and students. The Logan Museum of Anthropology and the Wright Museum of Art were founded in the late 19th century. The Logan Museum, accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, curates over 300,000 ethnographic and archaeological objects from 125 countries and over 600 cultural groups. The Wright Museum's holdings of over 8,000 objects include a large collection of original prints and Asian art. Both museums feature temporary special exhibitions year-round.

The Beloit College campus shows two sculptures by artist Siah Armajani, Gazebo for One Anarchist: Emma Goldman 1991 and The Beloit College Poetry Garden. [14]

Academics

Academic rankings
Liberal arts
U.S. News & World Report [15] 95
Washington Monthly [16] 63
National
Forbes [17] 458

Academic strengths include field-oriented disciplines such as anthropology and geology. In 2012, the college ranked among the top 20 American liberal arts colleges whose graduates go on to earn a Ph.D. [18]

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Middle College overlooking the Beloit campus

The geology department continues a tradition that began with Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin more than a century ago. It combines a course load with field methods and research. The department is a member of the Keck Geology Consortium, a research collaboration of several similar colleges across the United States, including Amherst College, Pomona College, and Washington and Lee University. The Consortium sends undergraduate students worldwide to research and publish their findings.

The college created a center for entrepreneurship known as CELEB, founded by Professor of Economics Emeritus Jerry Gustafson (Beloit '63). [19]

Beloit College's average class size is 15 students, with one-third of courses having 10 or fewer students. [20] Its three most popular majors, by 2021 graduates, were Biology/Biological Sciences, Psychology, and Business/Managerial Economics. [21]

Student life

Beloit students' housing options range from substance-free dormitories to special interest houses, such as the Art, Spanish, Outdoor Environmental Club (OEC), and interfaith options. [22] Beloit College has fraternities and sororities. [23] The school also has over 60 student organizations and clubs. [20] As of 2022, there is a creative writing club called the Aardvark Authors. [24]

The student newspaper, The Round Table, was founded in 1853 as the Beloit Monthly. [25] The student radio station, WBCR-FM, operates at 88.3 MHz and streams online. [26]

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Eaton Chapel

Beloit College has a frisbee golf course contained almost entirely within the college grounds. In April 2006, Beloit students broke the world record for the longest game of Ultimate Frisbee, playing for over 72 hours. [27]

In 2011 Beloit College received the Senator Paul Simon Award for Comprehensive Campus Internationalization. [28] 48 states are represented at the college and approximately 14% of the student body is from countries outside the United States. [29] In addition, about half of all Beloit College students study abroad in places such as China, Russia, Brazil, Germany, India, and Spain. Each year, students can share their experiences abroad on "Beloit and Beyond" Day, when all classes are canceled so that everyone can attend the presentations. [30]

The "Mindset List", an annual list of the life experiences of entering college freshmen, originated at Beloit College in 1998. In 2019, the list moved to Marist College. [31]

In 1969, like many campuses across the country, Beloit College received a set of demands from Black students called "The Black Demands". [32] Various students protested by overtaking Middle College, turning it into a Black Cultural Center, and gathering in front of the Richardson Auditorium before a scheduled board of trustees meeting. The demands were met but the college has not successfully implemented all of them, such as increasing the percentage of both black faculty and students to 10%. In 2018 Beloit College edited its bias policy to add a section on hate acts in order to address hate acts that occurred in 2006, 2015 and 2017. [33]

Athletics

Beloit competes at the NCAA Division III level as a member of the Midwest Conference and fields varsity teams in football, baseball, softball, volleyball, men's and women's swimming, men's and women's basketball, men's and women's cross country, women's tennis, men's and women's track and field, men's and women's lacrosse, and men's and women's soccer.

Recognition

In 2023, The Princeton Review listed Beloit College among the 388 best colleges. [34] Likewise, U.S. News & World Report gave Beloit College top rankings for National Liberal Arts Colleges, Best Value Schools, Undergraduate Research, Most Innovative Schools, and Top Performers on Social Mobility. [35] In their unique ranking based on their assessment of the college’s contribution to the public good, the Washington Monthly ranked Beloit College number 23 in the nation. [36]

Notable alumni

Notable faculty

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