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Collens, Lewis M.

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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.

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Lewis Collens Presentations to Trustees, 1999-2010

 Collection
Identifier: 024.10.06
Description of the Collection Six ring binders of materials and one spiral bound document from IIT president Lewis Collens, including: 1) Trustee Institutional Planning Committee, December 9, 2005: Agenda and support material 2) Collens Powerpoint presentations, 1999 and earlier: CD-ROM disc and print-offs 3) Collens Powerpoint presentations, 2000: print-offs only 4) "2010 Plan" documents, ca. 2006 5) "2010 Planning Mission & Vision" 6) "2010 Planning" 7) "2010 Plan Progress Meeting, January 19, 2006: Agenda and...
Dates: 1999-2010

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