East Quadrangle
Home of the RC
A brief history (excerpt from UM Housing) :
East Quadrangle was completed in two phases: the first, in 1941, at a cost of $1.2 million; and the second, in 1948, at a cost of $2.3 million. East Quad has been home to the Residential College since 1967, but the facility had donned other hats in earlier years. Constructed as an all-male residence hall and as part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), East Quad offered housing for the Military Intelligence Department, Army Air Force, and Army Engineers. During the war, this residence hall was used to train soldiers in Japanese language and weather observation. In 1952, East Quad became co-educational.
East Quad also houses the Residential College, a degree-granting unit of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts. It is a Living-Learning program (two-year residency requirement) with liberal arts facility and academic advising offices all in East Quadrangle. This program has 22 classrooms with over 150 academic courses offered annually. Regent approval was granted on 1966 and the program was "inaugurated" in 1967. The first director, James Robertson, was appointed July 1, 1967.
