Beloit College

Beloit College is a selective, private coeducational liberal arts college in Beloit, Wisconsin, USA, and a member of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest. Its current president is John Burris (resigning as of June 30, 2008), and its enrollment stands at roughly 1,300 undergraduate students. On April 25, 2008 the Board of Trustees appointed former health industry executive and alumnus Dick Niemiec as the College's interim president while the official presidential search takes place. The campus is notable for numerous prehistoric Indian mound. It is also among the top 20 selective liberal arts colleges in proportion of graduates obtaining doctoral degrees. Beloit College, the first post secondary education institution in Wisconsin, was founded by a group called Friends for Education, which was started by seven pioneers from New England who agreed that a college needed to be established soon after arrival in Wisconsin Territory. The group raised funds for a college to be founded in... full article at wikipedia