Teacher education
The Department of Education originally resided in the Peirce building on the campus of Eastern Michigan University. There was very little space for the department there. In 1937, Professor Elliott received $280,000 via the Horace H. and Mary A. Rackham foundation, to construct a building that was specifically made for the training of teachers with various types of handicaps. This was the first building in the United States that had these kind of accommodates for disabled children. In 1999, the Department of Special Education joined the Department of Teacher education into the John W. Porter building, which was constructed that very year.