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This month in history (93 years ago)
The new vitality and surge of the university quickly found expression in a broadened scope of teaching. A separate School of Education was created on July 1, 1921, with Professor Allen S. Whitney as dean. It trained upperclassmen to become teachers and granted a Bachelor of Arts or a Bachelor of Science degree in education. Teachers in the state had long agitated for this development at the university, even though there were four teacher-training normal colleges in Michigan.
— From “The Making of The University of Michigan” by Howard H. Peckham