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Wayne State University gets its start in 1933
August 8, 2021 @ 12:00 am
On this day in 1933, the Detroit Board of Education organized the six colleges it ran — liberal arts, medical, education, pharmacy, engineering and a graduate school — into one university. In January 1934, that institution was officially named Wayne University. Today it is commonly known as Wayne State.