History
Indiana Technical College | Established | 1930 | Type | for-profit |
Opened | 1931 | |||
Rechartered | 1948 | Type | non-profit | |
Indiana Institute of Technology | Renamed | 1963 |
Indiana Technical College was founded in 1930 as a for-profit private technical college by John A. Kalbfleisch, a former president of Indiana Business College, a for-profit business school. Formally, Indiana Tech was incorporated in 1931 and opened for classes that same year. Indiana Tech was rechartered during August 1948 as a non-profit, endowed college.
In 1953, Indiana Tech purchased the 20-acre (81,000 m2) campus of Concordia Theological Seminary’s campus east of downtown Fort Wayne from the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod, as Concordia was moving to its suburban location north of Fort Wayne. In 1963 the name was changed from Indiana Technical College to Indiana Institute of Technology.
Read more about this topic: Indiana Institute Of Technology
Famous quotes containing the word history:
“American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.”
—Harold Rosenberg (19061978)
“In history an additional result is commonly produced by human actions beyond that which they aim at and obtainthat which they immediately recognize and desire. They gratify their own interest; but something further is thereby accomplished, latent in the actions in question, though not present to their consciousness, and not included in their design.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (17701831)
“Certainly there is not the fight recorded in Concord history, at least, if in the history of America, that will bear a moments comparison with this, whether for the numbers engaged in it, or for the patriotism and heroism displayed.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)