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Collens, Lewis M.

 Person

Biography

Lewis "Lew" Collens was president of Illinois Institute of Technology from 1990 to 2007. He holds degrees in accounting (B.S., U. of Illinois), philosophy (M.A., U. of Illinois) and Law (J.D., U. of Chicago). He joined IIT's Chicago-Kent College of law as Professor of Law in 1970 (teaching corporate and securities law), and was serving as a Law and Humanities Fellow at Harvard Law School when he was named Dean of Chicago-Kent in 1974. Before joining Chicago-Kent he practiced law in Chicago and Washington, D.C., was Controller of Robeson's department store in Champaign, Ill., and was Co-founder and Chairman of BAR/BRI Educational Publishing Co.

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Lewis Collens photos, 1995

 Collection
Identifier: 024.10.05
Description of the Collection

Two 8" x 10" photographs. The first, in black and white, shows Collens at a sporting event holding a baseball, wearing a baseball cap, and posing with "Downtown Julie Brown" from MTV'S video jockey (MTV-VJ). The second, in color, shows Collens in an open field, hard hat in hand, standing next to a Komatsu crane/shovel.

Dates: 1995

Lohan Master Plan collection, 1996-2003

 Collection
Identifier: 037.02.10
Description of the Collection

Office files from Mies van der Rohe Society related to the Lohan Master Plan and related activities.

Dates: 1996-2003

McCormick Tribune Campus Center Groundbreaking and IIT Challenge Grant tapes, 2000-2001

 Collection
Identifier: 037.08.22
Description of the Collection Audio and video tapes (unedited) recorded by Illinois Institute of Technology to document two events related to the university's renewal program. Ten of the tapes document events surrounding the March 9, 2000 ground breaking for the McCormick Tribune Campus Center including a video conference with representatives of the various architectural, engineering, university, and public entities who collaborated on the building, the official ground breaking ceremony, and the lunch reception which...
Dates: 2000-2001

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