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It also included The Hudson School, a high school offering a college prep program as well as training in business and technology for students who did not plan to attend college and the Detroit School of Religion. In 1922 the College of Liberal Arts was also added. In 1957, the pharmacy program merged
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evening school and later developed into a private engineering and science college, formalizing its evening adult education program. It undertook several name changes in the early 20th century, using the name Detroit Technical Institute by 1908 and changing it again to Detroit Institute of Technology
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In 1957, the college added a competitive swimming team that trained in the YMCA pool but never held competitions there as it could not accommodate spectators. During the first few years, the team competed in National N.A.I.A Championships never finishing lower than 4th. place but never winning a
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The first quarters of the college were a YMCA Building on the corner of Griswold and Grand River. Having outgrown the building, it moved to a large nine-story YMCA building on the corner of Witherell and East Adams that included reading rooms, a library, two gymnasiums, swimming pools, handball
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The College of Pharmacy was added in 1907 after separating from the School of Medicine. The College of Commerce offered four-year programs in accounting, marketing, management, finance, and production. The School of Engineering had electrical, mechanical, chemical, automotive, and machine trade
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National Team Championship. It gave scholarships to local high school outstanding swimmers for a period of five years before reducing the team size and in 1966, dropped the Sport entirely.
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The Detroit Institute of Technology competed in basketball since at least 1921, when the first mention of their team, the Dynamics, is made. Between 1928 and 1950, with a break during
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in 1979. After the college's demise, this building became a part of Wayne State University where it is used as an incubator for startup companies, and is currently referred to as the
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in Southfield, Michigan, was issued custody of the academic records of the Detroit Institute of Technology by the Michigan Department of Education. It also offers alumni programs.
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Magazine of the Detroit News, "R.I.P - D.I.T. Obit for an urban college - Eulogies and explanations" pg 22, 3/14/1982 cover story by John McAleenan and pg 2 editorial
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led to the cancellation of their visas, the college abruptly lost a large percentage of its students. This loss of income, paired with the
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By 1920 it had six schools in operation. Out of these, four offered undergraduate degrees: The College of Law offered a four-year program.
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building which stands across from Cass Park in downtown Detroit was built in 1928 by famous Detroit architect
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courts and five floors of residence rooms. That building was later razed to make way for
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First called the Association Institute, the private school was founded in 1891 as a
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The Kresge Building, currently the Metropolitan Center for High Technology
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College Division and its traditional colors were purple and white.
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Astronaut Wally Schirra was on the faculty from 1968 till 1972
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By 1979, a third of its students were Iranian citizens. As the
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Registrar's Office, Detroit Institute of Technology (D.I.T.)
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Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History
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Private
technical college
YMCA
Nickname
NAIA
LTU's Detroit Tech page
private
technical college
Detroit, Michigan
YMCA
Wayne State University
North Central Association of Colleges and Schools
Iran Hostage Crisis
early 1980s recession
Lawrence Technological University

Comerica Park
S. S. Kresge Corporation
Troy, Michigan
art deco
Albert Kahn
National Register
Metropolitan Center for High Technology
World War II
Korean War
NAIA
Henry Ford
Ford Motor Company
Richard H. Austin

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