Beloit College is a private coeducational liberal arts college in Beloit, Wisconsin, USA. It is a member of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest, and has an enrollment of roughly 1,300 undergraduate students. Beloit is the oldest college in Wisconsin, and has the oldest building of any college northwest of Chicago in continuous academic operation.
Beloit College was founded by the group Friends for Education, which was started by seven pioneers...
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Beloit College is a private coeducational liberal arts college in Beloit, Wisconsin, USA. It is a member of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest, and has an enrollment of roughly 1,300 undergraduate students. Beloit is the oldest college in Wisconsin, and has the oldest building of any college northwest of Chicago in continuous academic operation.
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 Wisconsin Territory, agreed that a college needed to be established. The group raised funds for a college in their new 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 it remains in operation today. Classes began in the fall of 1847, with the first degrees awarded in 1851.
The first president of Beloit was a Yale University graduate, Aaron Lucius Chapin, who served...
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