The Making of University of Michigan History

Graduate School founded...

After years of discussion and some faculty opposition, the Regents, in December 1911, authorized the establishment of an independent Graduate Department. Graduate study had been administered by the Graduate Council, a part the College of LS&A. Karl Eugen Guthe was named the first Dean of the Graduate Department. With the aid of a distinguished executive committee, Guthe did much to raise the quality and scope of graduate work before his premature death in 1915. He was succeeded as dean by Prof. Alfred Lloyd.

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