Rochester Institute of Technology - Techmila / Ramikin Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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in 1944, the school changed its name from the rochester athenaeum and mechanic's institute to the rochester institute of technology, and in 1950 took the significant step of awarding degrees, the institute expanded, but so had every college, in 1948, new york state created the state university of new york which developed a network of two year schools across the state, the state chose rit as a model, and while that was a compliment, it was also a challenge, clearly, in the new educational scene, a technical school which did not offer de- grees would be overlooked, therefore, the institute abandoned its decades-old objections, and in 1950, became the first institution in the state of new york to award the aas degree, in 1953 it received permission to award bachelor degrees, and soon went on to develop graduate programs, originally, the intention of the institute was to remain in downtown rochester, but surrounding circumstances changed all of that, there was the lack of space and the difficulty and expense in further expansion, an increasingly difficult social situation surfaced in the campus area, students were odvised not to carry weapons nor to attempt self-protection, the most crucial factor was the decision by the state to build an extension of the inner loop through the campus, this would destroy several of the institute's principal buildings and divide in two what remained. the move to a 1,300 acre, $60 million campus in henrietta was the culmination of dr. mark elling- son's career as president, in retrospect, it was the institute's most daring and foresighted act. without the new campus. Ihe national advisory group would not have chosen rit as the site for the nation- al technical institute of the deaf. the move to a hew campus necessitated many difficult adjustments, the finances were far more complex, it was a long time before the buildings, especially the dorms, were functional, when dr. paul miller succeeded dr. ellingson in 1969, he confronted serious problems, this was the period of immense unrest on college campuses through- out the nation, reaching a terrible climax in killings at kent state and jackson state, rit reflected the distrubance and unrest of the nation. by the end of the decade, new problems emerged; energy, the environment, a serious drop In the student population, disenchantment with higher education, and inflation, nevertheless, the growth of the institute, which almost doubled in the ten years following the move, continued, pre- sently. in terms of enrollment, rit remains one of the strongest schools in the nation. dr. miller resigned on january 1,1979, having led the new campus from its turbulent beginnings to a position of confident security, he was succeeded by dr. m. richard rose, president of a If red university, in that year, the anniversary year, eisenhower col- lege became a part of rit. the school of applied industrial studies was established at 50 west main, the men who long ago met in the reynolds arcade could scarcely have imagined the fortunes of their new association during the next one hundred and fifty years, in 1980, we are in a better position to know our expectations, one of the purposes of studying the history of an institution is to better guide it towards our goals.

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