Editing Carnegie Mellon University (section)

== History ==
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The Carnegie Technical Schools were founded in 1900 in [[Pittsburgh|Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]]<ref>{{cite book|last1=Committee on Education, United States House of Prepresentatives|title=Charges Against the Federal Board for Vocational Education, Volume 3|date=1920|publisher=Government Printing Office|location=Washington|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CTsXAAAAYAAJ&q=clifford%20b%20connelley&pg=PA1805 |access-date=June 25, 2015|archive-date=August 18, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210818230958/https://books.google.com/books?id=CTsXAAAAYAAJ&q=clifford%20b%20connelley&pg=PA1805 |url-status=live}}</ref> by the [[Scottish-American]] industrialist and philanthropist [[Andrew Carnegie]], who wrote "My heart is in the work", when he donated the funds to create the institution. Carnegie's vision was to open a vocational training school for the sons and daughters of working-class Pittsburghers, many of whom worked in his mills. Carnegie was inspired for the design of his school by the [[Pratt Institute]] in [[Brooklyn, New York]], founded by industrialist [[Charles Pratt]] in 1887.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2249&dat=19020116&id=zZ4-AAAAIBAJ&pg=3973,2142724 |work=Boston Evening Transcript |via = Google News Archive Search|access-date=|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160512201902/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2249&dat=19020116&id=zZ4-AAAAIBAJ&sjid=R1oMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3973,2142724 |archive-date=May 12, 2016|date = January 16, 1902|title = The Pratt Institute: Model for Pittsburg School of Technology |url-status=live}}</ref> In 1912, the institution changed its name to Carnegie Institute of Technology (CIT) and began offering four-year degrees. During this time, CIT consisted of four constituent schools: the School of Fine and Applied Arts, the School of Apprentices and Journeymen, the School of Science and Technology, and the [[Margaret Morrison Carnegie College|Margaret Morrison Carnegie School for Women]].

The [[Mellon Institute of Industrial Research]] was founded in 1913 by banker and industrialist brothers [[Andrew Mellon]] (who went on to become [[United States Secretary of the Treasury|U.S. Treasury Secretary]]) and [[Richard B. Mellon]] in honor of their father, [[Thomas Mellon]], patriarch of the [[Mellon family]]. The Institute began as a research organization that performed contract work for government and industry, initially as a department within the [[University of Pittsburgh]]. In 1927, the Mellon Institute was incorporated as an independent nonprofit. In 1937, the Mellon Institute's iconic building was completed on Fifth Avenue.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/mellon-institute.html|title=Mellon Institute at Carnegie Mellon University National Historic Chemical Landmark|website=American Chemical Society|access-date=July 16, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171114202539/https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/mellon-institute.html|archive-date=November 14, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 1967, with support from [[Paul Mellon]], the Carnegie Institute of Technology merged with the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research to become Carnegie Mellon University. In 1973, Carnegie Mellon's coordinate [[Women's colleges in the United States|women's college]], the Margaret Morrison Carnegie College, merged its academic programs with the rest of the university.<ref>{{cite web|title=History of MMCC|url=http://www.carnegiemellontoday.com/article.asp?Aid=347|publisher=carnegiemellontoday.com|access-date=February 15, 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090221125329/http://www.carnegiemellontoday.com/article.asp?Aid=347|archive-date=February 21, 2009}}</ref> The industrial research mission of the Mellon Institute survived the merger as the Carnegie Mellon Research Institute (CMRI) and continued doing work on contract to industry and government. In 2001, CMRI's programs were subsumed by other parts of the university or spun off into autonomous entities.<ref>{{cite web|title=CMU closing its Carnegie Mellon Research Institute|url=http://old.post-gazette.com/healthscience/20010331cmuhealth2.asp|publisher=post-gazette.com|access-date=|first =  Mackenzie|last = Carpenter|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004214223/http://old.post-gazette.com/healthscience/20010331cmuhealth2.asp|archive-date=October 4, 2013|url-status=live|date = April 1, 2001}}</ref>