Massachusetts Institute of Technology history

Because open conflict in the Civil War broke out only two days later on April 12, 1861, Rogers faced enormous difficulties raising funds to match conditional financial commitments from the state. Thus, his recruitment of faculty and students was delayed, bur eventually MIT's first classes were held in rented space at the Mercantile Building in downtown Boston in 1865.

The construction of the first MIT building was completed in Boston's Back Bay in 1866.

Ellen Swallow Richards, the first woman in the United States to earn a degree in STEM,⁠03 You can read her thesis, on kinds of ore from Colorado, here. graduated from MIT in 1870.

MIT's financial position was severely undermined following the Panic of 1873 and subsequent Long Depression.

The colors were selected in 1876 when a communication signed by a committee representing the classes then at MIT and affirmed by the Executive Committee of the Alumni Association was voted on and approved at a meeting of the Faculty (Records of the MIT Faculty, vol.

On May 30, 1882, during Walker's first Commencement exercises, Rogers died mid-speech where his last words were famously "bituminous coal".

President Richard Maclaurin sought to move the campus to a new location when he took office in 1909.

1914 MIT faculty and administration establish Course XV, Engineering Administration, at MIT. Over time, Course XV evolves to become the MIT Sloan School of Management.

1916: Move to Cambridge Originally located in Boston’s Back Bay, the Institute moved to Cambridge during a three-day alumni reunion in June of 1916.

Smith.” It was not until an alumni dinner in January 1920, just five days before the death of President Maclaurin, that the identity of the donor was revealed to be George Eastman, founder of Eastman Kodak.

The school's close links with industry and its ability to manage large-scale technology and engineering projects prompted Alfred P. Sloan, chairman of General Motors, to endow the Sloan School of Management for special research and education in management in 1928.

Karl Taylor Compton reorganized the Institute to incorporate a Division of Humanities under which these departments were placed in 1932, but could offer no degrees.

A PhD program in Economics was launched in 1941.

Winston Churchill: Mid-Century Convocation Speaker One of the best-known public events hosted by MIT was the “Mid-Century Convocation,” a symposium held in 1949 to reflect upon the post-war world and the role of science and technology.

Female students, however, remained a tiny minority (numbered in dozens) prior to the completion of the first women's dormitory, McCormick Hall, in 1964.

MIT and Wellesley begin cross-registration program in 1968

Course "Bibles" In 1970, the then-Dean of Institute Relations, Benson R. Snyder, published The Hidden Curriculum, in which he argued that a mass of unstated assumptions and requirements dominated MIT students' lives and inhibited their ability to function creatively.

Council for the Arts founded in 1972.

Since 1975, all MIT undergraduate students have been required to take eight classes distributed across the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences before receiving their degrees.

In 1977, two female students, juniors Susan Gilbert and Roxanne Ritchie, were disciplined for publishing an article on April 28 of that year in the "alternative" MIT campus weekly Thursday.

In 1983, in response to the burgeoning role of the computer, the school founded the Media Laboratory to examine the processes and consequences of all media and their interactions with technology.

Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1985.

In 1986, David Baltimore, a Nobel Laureate, and his colleague, Thereza Imanishi-Kari, were accused of research misconduct.

The Justice Department filed an antitrust suit against MIT and the eight Ivy League colleges in 1991 for holding "Overlap Meetings" to prevent bidding wars over promising students from consuming funds for need-based scholarships.

An illustrative report published in 1997, showed that the aggregated revenues produced by companies founded by MIT and its graduates would make the institution the 24th largest economy in the world.

Hopkins, rather than a third party, investigated her own charges and concluded in 1999 concluded there was "subtle yet pervasive" bias against women at MIT, although no instance of intentional discrimination was found.

The 2000 suicide of MIT undergraduate Elizabeth Shin drew attention to suicides at MIT and created a controversy over whether MIT had an unusually high suicide rate.

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