Cleary University

Michigan in Washtenaw County in 1883 by Patrick Roger Cleary as the Cleary School of Penmanship, the school was then incorporated in 1891 as Cleary Business College and located in Ypsilanti's Union Block Building. In 1933, the Cleary Family turned the physical assets of the college over to a Board of Trustees, establishing Cleary College as an independent, not-for-profit institution. In 1938, Patrick Roger Cleary retired and his son, Owen Cleary, became president. The college was located at its original, purpose-built building in Downtown Ypsilanti at 300 West Michigan Avenue (originally Congress Street) until 1960, when the college moved to a newly constructed building at 2170 Washtenaw Avenue west of Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti. A branch college was opened in Livingston County outside of Howell, Michigan in 1979. By 1982, the combined campuses served over one thousand students. Cleary College purchased property at 3601 Plymouth Road in Ypsilanti's neighboring Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1998, and vacated …