I was just reading in a book about a man who was the first person in his family to go to college. I have always been sorry that I was the first person in the family to graduate college, because dad attended college for four years, but Wayne State would not accept his credits from Detroit Institute of Technology.
I had always wanted to find out if there was a way to get this changed and get dad his degree.
I was just reading the Wikipedia entry for DIT. I learned three things of interest:
First, DIT was eventually accredited I have no idea if that worked retroactively, but maybe it did.
Second, it shut down for good in 1982.
Third, the "transcripts" are located at Lawrence Technological University. Which is located just across Northwestern from where dad's old office was. My friend Jody Gaber is on the faculty there and her daughter Zoe attends.
Anyone interested in following up on this?
