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 52 Collections and/or Records:
University Planning Team Campus Redevelopment Presentation collection, 2005
Collection
Identifier: 037.02.09
Description of the Collection
Slide presentation and accompanying written documentation (7 pages photocopied from "Background Briefing Book for Urban Land Institute" [created in March, 1995]) given to IIT Board of Trustees, Jan. 18, 1995, by team of architects who presented alternative schemes for redevelopment of the university's main campus. Slides (ct.=28) contain "talking point" text phrases and include some statistics. (Slides are not in original order.) The individuals responsible for this project are identified in...
Dates:
1995
University Staff Meeting collection, 2001-2009
Collection
Identifier: 024.10.09
Description of the Collection
Bound booklets of slide images (printed in color from Adobe Acrobat format slides) shown at the annual meetings held for staff members of Illinois Institute of Technology at which President Lew Collens and senior university administrators presented an overview of campus activities for the past academic year and projects for the coming year. Identified alternately as University Staff Meeting and University Staff Update. See below for dates of meetings represented in the...
Dates:
2001-2009
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