Mark W. Ellingson was the 5th president of the Rochester Institute of Technology, succeeding John A. Randall, from 1936 – 1969. He rose from a teacher at the institute to the presidency, and oversaw a major expansion of the RIT endowment, a 1937 merger between the Empire School of Printing, the 1944 renaming to "Rochester Institute of Technology" (it had previously been named the Athenaeum and Mechanics Institute), and the planning for the construction of, and 1961 transfer to, the current campus in Henrietta.

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• "RIT's presidential history", by Michael Saffran; Number 11, Volume 39, March 2007 issue of RIT News & Events