Mark Ellingson (1905 – 1993) was the 5th president of the
Rochester Institute of Technology, succeeding
John A. Randall
John Arthur Randall (July 25, 1881 – June 9, 1968) was the fourth President of the Rochester Institute of Technology, succeeding Royal B. Farnum, from 1922 to 1936.
Randall was born in Durham, Maine in 1881 and graduated from Wesleyan Univ ...
, from 1936 to 1969. He rose from a teacher at the institute to the presidency, which he held for longer than anyone before or since, and in many ways he brought the institute into its modern form. During Ellingson's tenure in office from 1936 to 1969,
enrollment in day and evening classes rose from 2,250 to 16,000. He also oversaw a major expansion of the RIT
endowment
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; a 1937 merger with the Empire School of Printing; the 1944 renaming to "Rochester Institute of Technology" (formerly, Rochester Athenaeum and Mechanics Institute); the planning, construction, and 1968 transfer to the current campus in
Henrietta. He also spearheaded the drive to have RIT selected as the location for the
National Technical Institute for the Deaf, which admitted its first students in 1968.
The tallest building on the Henrietta campus, a residence hall nicknamed "Tower A", is named for Ellingson.
File:EllingsonResidenceHallEastFace.JPG, East face of Ellingson Hall
File:MarkEllingsonResidenceHall.JPG, West face of Ellingson Hall
File:TheBowerRITCampus.JPG, Marcia Ellingson memorial
References
Presidents of Rochester Institute of Technology
1905 births
1993 deaths
People from Magrath
Canadian emigrants to the United States
20th-century American academics
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