Below are some of Pope’s observations that can be found in the original guide:

• Campus Environment: “[Beloit] is a place to develop a strong sense of identity.”
• Student Satisfaction:
  • “Beloit is a happy place that multiplies talents.”
  • “Beloit gets 94 percent to 97 percent of its freshman back for sophomore year, which is at least as good as the status schools.”
• Student/Faculty Collaboration: “It is not unusual for [Beloit] students to be co-authors with faculty members on papers presented at professional meetings and occasionally of a book. It would be unusual for an undergraduate to have this kind of excitement or get this kind of recognition at a university.”
• Teaching and Academics: “Beloit’s students are heavily involved in their own education. [Many] present an individual project in open forum and submit to questions from other students, faculty, and staff. Some projects have been good enough to be accepted for academic professional meetings.”
• Producing Future Leaders:
  • “[S]eniors and recent graduates are saying […] emphatically that Beloit has changed their lives.”
  • “[B]y the time they graduate, more than half of Beloit’s students have had some kind of off-campus study or internship, in this country or abroad. Also, over 80 percent of graduates have completed an independent study or special project.”
  • “Sixty-three percent of graduates go on to get graduate or professional degrees, which puts [Beloit] among the top 50 in the country. And when it comes to producing future Ph.D.s in sociology, anthropology, geology, and foreign languages, it’s in the top 15%. When Who’s Who is used as an indicator of major contributors or achievers across the board, Beloit again appears among the top 50.”
  • “Beloit is a founding member of the International 50 […]. This group produces foreign service officers, ambassadors, and people who get doctorates in foreign languages and international studies at four to six times the rate of major research universities.”