Recollections of a Dean, 2009.

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Recollections of a Dean, 2009.

Written recollections on being a dean and developments while serving as dean.

35 pages.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8002849

Bentley Historical Library

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University of Michigan. College of Architecture and Urban Planning

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The Act of 1837, which established a state university at Ann Arbor, numbered among its provisions one for the appointment of a professor of civil engineering and architecture. However, it was not until 1876 that William LeBaron Jenney was appointed as the first professor of architecture and design. In that year, one-third of the legislature's appropriation for the School of Mines was set aside for the establishment of a Department of Architecture and Design. In its first year, the p...

University of Michigan. College of Architecture and Urban Planning

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Beckley, Robert M.

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Dean of the University of Michigan College of Architecture and Urban Planning from 1987 to 1997. From the description of Recollections of a Dean, 2009. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 700215813 Robert M. Beckley was born in Cleveland, Ohio and attended the University of Cincinnati (BS 1959) and the Harvard Graduate School of Design (MA 1961). He joined the University of Michigan faculty as an instructor in 1963 and was promoted to assistant profess...

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