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Current campuses include:Īcademics National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition īaker College won the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition: 2008, 2009.

#DETROIT FREE PRESS BAKER COLLEGE PROFESSIONAL#

Each campus is its own business entity, while an overarching Baker College Professional Services, Inc., coordinates campuses and services. They currently maintain fourteen ground campuses as well as an online college. In addition, the Clinton Township and Allen Park campuses were relocated to Auburn Hills, Michigan.īaker College has primarily grown through two methods: establishing new campuses and purchasing and rebranding existing small schools (for example, their Auburn Hills campus was once the Pontiac School of Business).

2020- Baker relocated main campus from Flint, Michigan to Owosso, Michigan.

The Baker College system celebrates its 100th anniversary.

2011 - The Culinary Institute of Michigan is granted Exemplary Status accreditation through the American Culinary Federation (ACF).

2010 - Baker College of Cadillac opens its new Center for Transportation and Technology.

Baker College of Flint IT students, and reigning champions of the 2008 National Student Cyber Defense competition, defend their title and take first place to become the only back-to-back winners in the history of the event.

The 3-story, 39,000-square-foot (3,600 m 2) facility in downtown Muskegon, Michigan began construction in the spring of 2008 and was completed in the fall of 2009.

2009 - Baker College's Culinary Institute of Michigan (CIM) opens to students interested in studying culinary arts, baking and pastry arts, and food and beverage management.

2008 - A closed auto dealership in Flint, Michigan is renovated and transformed into the Baker College Center for Transportation technology, opening to students in 2009.

The university changed its name to Baker Junior College in 1974 and became a non profit corporation in 1977. In 1965 it merged with Muskegon College when representatives of the Jewell family, who owned and managed Muskegon College, bought Baker Business University.

3.1 National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competitionīaker College started as Baker Business University, which was founded in Flint, Michigan, in 1911, by Eldon E.The hope here, of course, is that the current situation is only a temporary setback, and does not result in a catastrophic conclusion. Hence, when the University of Michigan sneezes, Flint (and Dearborn and Ann Arbor) all are at risk of catching pneumonia. While this symbiotic relationship provides great benefits to all parties in times of plenty, this same interdependence can be devastating when things go awry. Many institutions of higher learning are faced with similar budget woes, and their host communities have been suffering in kind. Regrettably, this is an all-too-familiar story for college towns right now. So their longstanding connections to the community are severed as well.” And at least half of these lecturers are residents of the city of Flint. When these faculty are lost, they also are lost to their present and former students, for whom they typically have served as mentors. “Many of these lecturers have been teaching on the Flint campus for 20 years or more. Having studied labor relations, he understands the very real human cost of all this. Robinson, who earned a doctorate in political science from Yale University, also serves as a lecturer on the University of Michigan’s Ann Arbor campus. “Not only unwise, but completely unnecessary, Robinson said. “The University of Michigan easily has the capacity to use a small portion of their unrestricted reserves to fill these budget holes in the near term.”ĭr. Which is exactly why he believes that the layoff decisions are so shortsighted. The connection between education and a brighter future for Flint is not lost on Ian Robinson, who is the president of the Lecturer’s Employee Organization, an affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers that represents the University of Michigan-Flint instructors.