Detroit Free Press
August 8, 2010
This week in Michigan history
5 colleges unite — and later form WSU
Five colleges in Detroit united on Aug. 8, 1933, to form the Colleges of the City of Detroit, which later evolved into Wayne State University. The Detroit Board of Education controlled the colleges of Liberal Arts, Education, Engineering, Medicine and Pharmacy and the Graduate School.
Some of them had different iterations; for example, the College of Education was founded in 1881 as the Detroit Normal Training School. The year after the organization of the Colleges of the City of Detroit, the collection of schools was renamed Wayne University.
In 1956, it became Wayne State University.
Today, WSU is one of the biggest public universities in the U.S.
Famous alumni include federal Judge Damon Keith, astronaut Jerry Linenger, actress Lily Tomlin and radio personality Casey Kasem.
-- ZLATI MEYER
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