Detroit Institute of Technology

Detroit Institute of Technology
Former name
 Association Institute
Type Technical
Active 1891–1981
Affiliation YMCA
Location Detroit, Michigan, United States
Campus Urban
Nickname Dynamics
Sporting affiliations
 NAIA
Website LTU's Detroit Tech page

The Detroit Institute of Technology was a fully accredited, four-year technical college in Detroit, Michigan that closed operations in 1981.

First called the Association Institute[1], the private school was founded in 1891, and later developed into a private engineering and science college in conjunction with 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]

The college was accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (NCA).

It consisted of 3 colleges: liberal arts and sciences, business administration, and engineering. The transcripts for DIT students are available from Lawrence Technological University in Southfield, MI, which also offers alumni programs.[4]

For a time, the school was affiliated with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).; with which the DIT trustees commissioned a study to discover just what their role was approaching the 1980s. Lurking on the horizon was the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis. One-third of students then at DIT were Iranians. Many left without paying.[5]

The college played in the NAIA College Division. The college fielded a football team until 1951.

A former teacher at DIT in the 1890s was Henry Ford, inventor, innovator and founder of Ford Motor Company. Richard H. Austin, former Michigan Secretary of State was an alumnus.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Works Progress Administration (1941). Michigan: A Guide to the Wolverine State. Oxford University Press. ISBN 1-60354-021-0.
  2. ↑ Frank Bury Woodford, Arthur M. Woodford (1969). All Our Yesterdays: A Brief History of Detroit. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 0-8143-1381-7.
  3. ↑ David Lee Poremba (2003). Detroit: A Motor City History. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 0-7385-2435-2.
  4. ↑ https://www.ltu.edu/registrars_office/detroit-institute-of-technology.asp
  5. ↑ Magazine of the Detroit News, "R.I.P - D.I.T. Obit for an urban college - Eulogies and explanations" pg22, 3/14/1982 cover story by John McAleenan and pg2 editorial

Coordinates: 42°20′24.0″N 83°03′41.9″W / 42.340000°N 83.061639°W / 42.340000; -83.061639

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