Stevens) was a scholar, professor, and early supporter of the student cooperative housing movement in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in the 1930s.

[2] Stevens was a founder of, and faculty advisor to, the University of Michigan Inter-Cooperative Council (ICC), an innovative initiative, now greatly expanded, fostering student-owned housing organized on the Rochdale Principles of cooperation.

[3] The house, which stood on Forest Avenue south of Hill Street in Ann Arbor, was destroyed on May 25, 2004, by a fire.

The program's purpose was to serve persons who had received little educational training, but who wished to become informed about economics, social philosophies, collective bargaining, labor relations, and similar topics, and who were eager to improve their skills in public speaking and debate, the managing of meetings, and union organization.

Stevens employed the Bible as a critical educational tool, discussing its literary, social, historical, and religious aspects to reach students with widely differing cultural backgrounds, beliefs, and degrees of sophistication.

Angelyn became a graduate student in philosophy at Michigan during Professor Stevens' early years in the university's English Department.