Wayne State University

Wayne State University

      public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Detroit, Mich., U.S. It is a comprehensive research university, comprising colleges of education; engineering; fine, performing, and communication arts; liberal arts and sciences; nursing; and pharmacy and health sciences. It also includes schools of business administration, graduate studies, law, medicine, and social work, and a program in library and information science. It offers a wide range of programs and awards hundreds of undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees and certificates. The university operates extension centres throughout metropolitan Detroit. The Walter P. Reuther Library (which houses the Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs and the Douglas A. Fraser Center for Workplace Issues), the Addiction Research Institute, and the Center for the Study of Arts and Public Policy are among its research units.

      Wayne State University was formed in 1933 from the merger of several established colleges in Detroit. The oldest of these antecedents was the Detroit Medical College, founded in 1868 and now the School of Medicine. Detroit Teachers College (founded 1881) and the College of the City of Detroit (founded 1917) were also important antecedents of Wayne State. After the merger, the university was known as Wayne University, for Wayne county, which had been named for American Revolutionary War Gen. Anthony Wayne (Wayne, Anthony). It became Wayne State University in 1956. Notable alumni of Wayne State or its antecedents include writer Stephen Dobyns (Dobyns, Stephen), poet and critic John Malcolm Brinnin (Brinnin, John Malcolm), journalist Helen Thomas (Thomas, Helen), and poet Robert Hayden (Hayden, Robert).

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