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Overview and Description
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 Quadrangle is located on Central Campus. See a map of the campus area near East Quad. East Quad houses approximately 900 students. The Resident Staff consist of: 2 Hall Directors, 22 Resident Advisors, 1 Minority Peer Advisor, 1 Minority Peer Advisor Assistant, 1 Resident Computer Systems Consultant, 1 Academic Peer Advisor.

East Quadrangle has several opportunities for participation in student government (including the East Quad Representative Assembly and Abeng - a multicultural council).

The East Quad ResComp site contains computers, laser printers and a scanner and is open 24 hours a day. Students can also take advantage of an on-site darkroom, several recreational rooms, a dance studio, a gaming room, four music practice rooms, art studios, language labs, the Halfway Inn, East Quadrangle/Residential College Auditorium and the Residential College Art Gallery.

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.

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Take a virtual tour of East Quad!

Address
East Quadrangle
701 East University
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1245
General Information: (734) 764-0100
Facsimile: (734) 763-3998

History and Biographies
The north half of East Quadrangle opened in 1939 and the south half was opened in 1947. At that time, it was an all-male hall with mostly engineering students. East Quadrangle was the birth place of the Pilot Program (now Lloyd Hall Scholars Program), started in 1965. It is also home to the Residential College started in 1967.

Hall and House Histories and Biographies
Anderson	Henry Clay Anderson was a professor of Mechanical Engineering, Dean of the College of Engineering and Director of Student-Alumni Relations. He died in Ann Arbor on October 14, 1939 at the age of 66.
Cooley	Charles Horton Cooley was a professor of Sociology, and perhaps one of the United States' leading sociologists. Professor Cooley received his bachelor's and doctorate at the University of Michigan. He was born in Ann Arbor and his father was a law professor, Thomas Cooley, at the University of Michigan Law School and a justice on the Supreme Court of Michigan.
Green	Charles Ezra Greene (1842 - 1903) was the first Dean of the College of Engineering and a professor of Civil Engineering at the University. His methods greatly advanced the theory and practice of structural engineering.
Hayden	Joseph Ralston Hayden was a professor of Political Science who served as the Vice Governor of the Philippines, among other things, and became a member of the Board of Analysts of the Office of Strategic Services and later an advisor to Civil Affairs in the War Department during WWII. He was a casualty of the war.
Hinsdale	Aaron Burke Hinsdale (1837 - 1905) was the second chairman of the Science and the Art of Teaching in the School of Education from 1888 to 1900. He was involved in the accreditation inspections of secondary schools and an active participant in the Michigan Schoolmaters' Club as well as the Philosophical Society.
Prescott	Albert Benjamin Prescott (1832 - 1905) was a professor of Organic Chemistry and director of the Chemical Laboratory at the University. He was also the first Dean of the School of Pharmacy.
Strauss	Louis Abraham Strauss earned his A. B. in Literature, M. A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of Michigan. Afterwards, he spent 45 years in the English Department at the University.
Tyler	Moses Coit Tyler (1835 - 1900) was a professor of English language and literature at the University. He was one of the original professors at the University of Michigan. He was a teacher, historian, lecturer, physical culturalist, author, journalist and clergyman.

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