Detroit Institute of Technology

The Detroit Institute of Technology was a fully accredited, four-year technical college in Detroit, Michigan that closed operations as a result of economic recession in 1982. First called the Association Institute , the private school was founded in 1891, and later developed into a private engineering and science college by the founder of Ford Motor Company, Henry Ford, in conjunction with the Detroit YMCA, formalizing its evening adult education program; the later name was adopted in 1918. A pharmacy program, originally organized under the Detroit College of Medicine, became part of the school in 1907. In 1957, the pharmacy program merged with the School of Pharmacy at Wayne State University. In 1971, the S. S. Kresge Corporation,...