University of Michigan-Flint history

The college's first class graduated in 1958.

The college became a four-year institution in 1964, adding its first freshman class the next year.

In 1969, Genesee County voters converted Flint Junior College into a countywide college, Genesee Community College.

In 1970, the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools granted accreditation to the Flint College of the University of Michigan.

In 1971, the U-M Board of Regents officially changed the name of the institution to the University of Michigan-Flint.

The community and city assisted U of M–Flint in acquiring along the Flint River 42 acres. $5 million over five years was pledged towards a new campus in 1972 by the C.S. Mott Foundation.

On September 1, 1973, the Regents passed the plans for the first building by Sedgewick-Sellers & Associates, originally planned for a site at Lapeer Road and Court Street.

She was named the first chairperson of the Department of History, and in 1974, she was named the first recipient of the U-M-Flint Outstanding Professorship Award.

Two schools were formed at Flint in 1975, the College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Management.

In 1977, construction ended on the Class Room Office Building (CROB), later named David M. French Hall, and the Central Energy Plant.

In 1979, the original Harrison Street Halo Burger location was vacated to make way for University of Michigan–Flint parking.

While, the Harding Mott University Center (UCen) was finished that same year and the Recreation Center in 1982.

The U-M-Flint Dorothea E. Wyatt Award was established in 1988 in her honor.

In 1991, MCC helped establish the Mott Middle College, a nationally recognized program for troubled but talented high school students in the Genesee County area.

The library moved to its own building in 1994 with the completion of the Frances Willson Thompson Library.

In 1996 MCC began development of the Regional Technology Center (RTC), a center for high-technology education built on the site of the old St Joseph Hospital, adjacent to the main campus.

The 25-acre site across the river on the north side was acquired in 1997.

Northbank Center was acquired in 1998.

In September 1999, Juan E. Mestas began his tenure as the fifth chancellor of the University of Michigan–Flint.

In 2001, UM-Flint expanded north for the first time with the opening of the William S. White Building which houses health classrooms and labs.

The $40-million facility opened in September 2002 and drew more than 1,300 students its first semester.

In 2006, UM-Flint celebrated 50 Years of Excellence.

The first on-campus dorms, First Street Residence Hall, were completed in 2008.

The year 2010 saw the opening of a Media Arts & Entertainment Technology Center, providing professional-quality technical training for a wide variety of media-related careers.

The School of Management moved to a leased floor of the Riverfront Residence Hall in early 2013 from the White Building at renovation cost of $5.3 million.

In August 2014, Sue Borrego began as chancellor.

In mid-December 2015, the Uptown Reinvestment Corporation donated the Riverfront Residence Hall and Banquet Center to the university with the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation forgiving the remaining redevelopment loan for the center.

On October 20, 2016, the Regents formed the School of Nursing from the Department of Nursing in the School of Health Professions and Studies.

In 2019 MCC expanded its campus to downtown Flint with the opening of a state-of-the-art Culinary Arts Institute at the corner of Second and Saginaw streets in the heart of the entertainment district.

The main campus expanded once again in 2021 with the grand opening of the Lenore Croudy Family Life Center, located in the renovated former Woodside Church, adjacent to the main campus on Court Street.