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Flint, Mi Arts & Culture
Community Flint is a place where art is born and refined and
where history is preserved and honored. The city
Home to several colleges and universities, Flint embraces art in its many forms and is home to
is quickly becoming a great college town. In several museums, the Whiting Auditorium, the
your free time you can sit down for a meal with Flint Institute of Music, and the Flint Institute of
your friends at one of many nearby restaurants, Arts. Also, the nearby DTE Energy Music Theatre is
take a study break at a café, go see a concert or one of the nation’s top ranked concert venues and
performance at one of several local venues, get hosts more than 70 concerts each summer.
some fresh air on a nature trail, get involved in
volunteering, watch a game at Atwood Stadium, Sports & Recreation
or hit the slopes at one of the nearby ski resorts.
The Flint community values education, health, Although Flint may be a big city of approximately
and culture and has everything you need to enjoy 100,000 people, it still has 11,000 acres of woods,
your years at Kettering! water, and trails to offer – all part of Michigan’s
largest county park system. The city and its
Flint is also centrally located and is just a short surrounding area are host to a wide array of parks,
drive to destinations such as Detroit, Lake Huron, lakes and rivers, beaches, nature trails, golf courses,
beautiful Northern Michigan, and even Canada. ski resorts, sports teams, and car shows. All of this
means that you can find your favorite activities
close to campus!
Tradition of Excellence education — inventor and
industrialist, Charles Kettering.
The institution was founded in 1919 as The School of Kettering was an inventor,
Automobile Trades and opened under the direction of Albert engineer, businessman and the
Sobey to train engineering and management personnel. In 1923, holder of 186 patents. He was a
the school became the Flint Institute of Technology offering founder of Delco, and was head
a four-year cooperative education program. Recognizing of research at General Motors
the potential of cooperative education, the General Motors from 1920 to 1947. Among his
Corporation took over financial support of the school in 1926, most widely used automotive
renamed it General Motors Institute, and started utilizing the inventions were the electrical
facility to develop its own engineers and managers. starting motor and leaded
gasoline. In association with
Independence came in 1982 as GM divested itself of DuPont Chemical Company, he was also responsible for
ownership. With independence came another name change — the invention of Freon refrigerant for refrigeration and air
to GMI Engineering & Management Institute. conditioning systems, as well as for the development of Duco
lacquers and enamels, the first practical colored paints for
On January 1, 1998, GMI changed its name to honor the man mass-produced automobiles.
who not only helped found this institution, but also had a
strong influence in the concept of professional cooperative Kettering liked to say, “Do the right thing at the right time.”
