13 Facts About Beloit College

Beloit College is a private liberal arts college in Beloit, Wisconsin.

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.

Beloit College's first president was a Yale University graduate, Aaron Lucius Chapin, who served from 1849 to 1886.

The "Beloit College Plan" was a year-round curriculum introduced in 1964 that comprised three full terms and a "field term" of off-campus study.

Beloit College's campus is within the Near East Side Historic District.

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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.

In 2019 Beloit College started the construction on its newest building project, the renovation and resurrection of the Blackhawk Generating Station.

Beloit College has these fraternities and sororities: Phi Kappa Psi, Sigma Chi, and Tau Kappa Epsilon, national fraternities; Kappa Delta and Alpha Sigma Tau, national sororities; and Theta Pi Gamma, a local sorority.

Beloit College has a frisbee golf course contained almost entirely within the college grounds.

In 2011 Beloit College received the Senator Paul Simon Award for Comprehensive Campus Internationalization.

In 1969, like many campuses across the country, Beloit College received a set of demands from Black students called "The Black Demands".

Various students protested by overtaking Middle Beloit College, turning it into a Black Cultural Center, and gathering in front of the Richardson Auditorium before a scheduled board of trustees meeting.

Beloit College 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.