Detroit Institute of Technology

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The Detroit Institute of Technology (Detroit Tech) was a vocational college in Detroit, Michigan that closed in 1982.

First called the Association Institute[1] , the school was founded in 1891 by the Detroit YMCA[2], formalizing its evening adult education program; the later name was adopted in 1918.[1]

A pharmacy program, originally organized under the Detroit College of Medicine, became part of the school in 1907.[1] In 1957, the pharmacy program merged with the School of Pharmacy at Wayne State University. In 1971, the S. S. Kresge Corporation, which was moving to Troy, Michigan, donated its downtown Detroit headquarters to the school.[3]

They played in the NCAA College Division. It consisted of 3 colleges, 1 each of liberal arts and sciences, business administration, and engineering. The transcripts for Detroit Tech are now located at Lawrence Technological University. They also previously fielded a football team until 1951.

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  1. ^ a b c Works Progress Administration (1941). Michigan: A Guide to the Wolverine State. Oxford University Press. ISBN 1603540210. 
  2. ^ Frank Bury Woodford, Arthur M. Woodford (1969). All Our Yesterdays: A Brief History of Detroit. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 0814313817. 
  3. ^ David Lee Poremba (2003). Detroit: A Motor City History. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 0738524352. 

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