South Summit News

As part of The University of Toledo’s 150th anniversary celebration, Barbara Floyd will present the lecture “Celebrating Toledo’s University: 150 Years of the University and the City” Wednesday, March 22, from 4 to 5 p.m. at the Toledo Lucas County Public Library Main Library, 325 Michigan St. in downtown Toledo.

The lecture by Floyd, who is the author of “An Institution for the Promoting of Knowledge: The University of Toledo at 150,” is presented by the UToledo Sesquicentennial Committee. It will focus on how the city and its residents contributed to making the University a success, and how the University contributed to the development of the city of Toledo.

For 83 of its 150-year history, The University of Toledo was a municipal institution, supported by the taxpayers of the city of Toledo. The citizens of the city saved the University when it was on the brink of closing, including with the approval of a bond levy in 1928 on the eve of the Great Depression that allowed the University to build a magnificent new permanent campus on Bancroft Street. The support of the city set the course for the University to grow beyond anyone’s expectations. UToledo remained the city’s university until 1967 when it joined the state’s higher education system.

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