Appointment with Peace was published... | Expanding Campus Boundaries | Illinois Institute of Technology

Appointment with Peace was published after the invasion of Normandy, but before the Battle of the Bulge, when it seemed possible that the War would be over before the end of 1944. It picked up on the theme introduced in Blue Print for Progress, namely that a partnership between industry and education would produce the engineers and scientists needed for the country's growth in the immediate future.

With the War over in 1945, IIT was ready to begin its building program in earnest. As a result of the military training activities during the War, the scope of IIT's academic programs and the locus of the campus as a research center -- which was destined to accommodate three private research organizations, each needing its own facilities -- meant that the building program changed dramatically. Technology Center Today and Tomorrow projected a need for 15 additional buildings, more than double the six identified in the original 1941 plan. These 15 were in addition to those three already constructed.

In 1948 the building program was well underway and Toward Tomorrow invited corporations to designate their contributions for scholarships, fellowships, professorships, and research grants. Individuals were invited to bequeath securities, property, and enterprises to IIT.