ColoradoA Chronology of StateColorado’s Land-Grant University University 1879 1893 1909 1860s1861 Elijah Evan Women obtain the right to vote in Charles A. The area formerly known as Edwards is Colorado; Eliza Routt becomes the Lory becomes the Jefferson Territory becomes employed as the first woman to serve on the State president of officially known as “Colorado,” a College’s first Board of Agriculture. Colorado Spanish word meaning “reddish president. Agricultural colored,” a name early Spanish 1899 College. The first classes Explorers gave to the Colorado Barton O. are held. River, which originates in the state. Aylesworth becomes 1862 president of the The Morrill Act is passed, 1870s1881 College. 1910s1911 providing federal land grants to Charles L. The Fort Lewis School is support institutions of higher Ingersoll established under State Board learning that offer instruction becomes of Agriculture jurisdiction as a in agriculture and the mechanic president of the state vocational high school that arts and that promote “the liberal College. increasingly adds college-level and practical education of the 1900s1900 instruction. industrial classes in the several The first “Border War” football pursuits and professions of life.” game is played against the 1914 University of Wyoming. CAC’s The Smith-Lever Act is passed to 1864 1883 coach, George Toomey, played, support cooperative extension Fort Collins military post is Fort Collins is incorporated as a as did the coach from Wyoming. work at Morrill Act colleges. established; it is officially closed city. An editorial in the Collegian 1867. the following day dismissed 1915 1884 Wyoming’s protests, noting that Coach Harry Hughes leads the 1865 The first college commencement CAC scored two of its three College to its first conference American Civil War ends. takes place with a graduating touchdowns “after they had broken football championship. class of three, who immediately Mr. Toomey’s collar bone and he establish the Alumni Association. had to be carried from the field.” 1917 The Seed Laboratory is established 1870s1870 1886 1902 and becomes one of the leading Territorial Gov. Edward McCook Elwood Mead institutes the first A beet sugar refinery is established facilities of its kind in the nation. signs the bill establishing the collegiate irrigation engineering in Fort Collins. The United States enters World State Agricultural College in Fort instructional program in the War I. Collins as Colorado’s Morrill Act United States. 1903 college. The women’s basketball team 1887 wins the College’s conference 1873 The Hatch Act is passed to fund championship. Fort Collins officially is 1920s1922 research at Morrill Act colleges. incorporated as a town. Ralph Parshall, professor of civil 1904 and irrigation engineering, files A destructive flood inflicts heavy a patent for the Parshall Flume, 1876 damage on Fort Collins. Colorado becomes the 38th state. 1890s1891 which becomes the standard The first issue of the Rocky 1906 irrigation water measuring device throughout the world, even to this 1877 Mountain Collegian is published. The first fraternities and sororities day. The organizational structure is are established on campus. established for Colorado’s Morrill 1892 1926 Act college and includes the Alston Ellis 1907 The College establishes the State Board of Agriculture as its becomes The veterinary curriculum is Home Economics High Altitude governing body. president of the established, and the first short Laboratory, the first such College. course in the United States for laboratory in the nation. 1878 forest rangers is held at the A cornerstone-laying ceremony is College. held to dedicate the construction of the Main College Building, later known as Old Main. 1941 1951 1964 1930s1931 The United States enters World A flood inflicts severe damage The Civil Rights Act is passed, College researchers find a remedy War II; enrollment drops as men on the city; the Colorado-Big outlawing discrimination in for disease damaging Colorado’s enlist; this is the first time in Thompson Project releases first federally funded programs and carnation crop, a major product history that women outnumber water from Horsetooth Reservoir. prohibiting discrimination of the state’s greenhouse industry. men on campus. by both private and public 1952 employers. The Equal 1933 1944 The Fort Collins city street-car Opportunity Commission is Fort Lewis College becomes The College is renamed: system ceases operations. established to investigate and exclusively a junior college and Colorado Agricultural and judge complaints. drops its high school program; Mechanical College. 1955 A.R. Chamberlain, who later San Isabel Junior College 1965 The Servicemen’s Readjustment becomes the ninth president of (Pueblo), a private institution, The Colorado Commission on Act (G.I. Bill) is passed. the institution, receives the first is established and then becomes Higher Education (CCHE) is doctoral degree granted by the a public institution, Southern established. 1946 College. Colorado Junior College. The Fulbright Program is The Higher Education Act funds instituted to support the 1934 1957 community assistance research international exchange of Effective May 1, by act of the and programs; supports low- Severe drought throughout scholars. Colorado General Assembly, interest insured student loans, the western United States; Fort Colorado A&M becomes part-time employment (work Collins rations water. 1948 Colorado State University. study), educational opportunity Isaac E. grants, and teacher training 1935 Newsom The College is renamed: 1958 fellowships; and funds laboratory succeeds Roy The National Education Defense Colorado State College of and audio-visual instructional Green as Act, a Cold War response to the Agriculture and the Mechanic equipment and materials. president. Soviet Union’s Sputnik satellite Arts (Colorado A&M). launch, is passed to stimulate 1968 The Cooperative Extension advancement of education The CSU Environmental program administers nearly in science, mathematics, and Learning Center opens. $1 million in federal money to modern foreign languages. control wind erosion during the 1949 1969 Dust Bowl. William A.R. E. Morgan Chamberlain 1936 becomes 1960s1961 succeeds Alumnus Glenn Morris wins the president of the Pueblo Junior College becomes William E. gold medal in decathlon at the College. Southern Colorado State College, Morgan as Berlin Olympic games. a four-year degree-granting president. institution; land for the new 1937 Belmont Campus is purchased Southern Colorado Junior one year later. College is renamed Pueblo Junior Thurman “Fum” McGraw The United States lands first man College. becomes the College’s first 1962 on the moon. football player to receive All- Maurice Albertson, Pauline 1938 American honors. Birky, and Andrew Rice of the A flood inflicts heavy damage University’s civil engineering 1970 on Fort Collins, including the department conduct a feasibility 1970s College campus. Old Main is destroyed by arson. 1950s1950 study that helps lead to the The Housing and Home Finance creation of the Peace Corps. Colorado’s population is 2,207,259; Fort Collins’ is 43,337. Agency is authorized to make Fort Lewis College becomes 1940s1940 long-term loans to colleges and a four-year degree-granting 1971 universities for the construction Roy Green institution. The Twenty-Sixth Amendment to of dormitories and other succeeds the U.S. Constitution is ratified, revenue-producing facilities. Charles A. Lory 1963 extending voting rights to citizens Campus construction amounts to as president of The State Board of Agriculture 18 years or older. the College. $1.5 million and includes a new creates the Office of International veterinary teaching hospital and Programs. 1972 chemistry annex; an addition to The Higher Education Act the student union and faculty permits direct federal grants Colorado’s population is apartments; and a residence hall without specifying purposes 1,123,296; Fort Collins’ is 12,251. for women. and provides grants directly to The National Science Foundation students in need; the National (NSF) is established. Student Loan Association is established.

2 1973 1985 Professor Thomas Sutherland U.S. troops begin withdrawal 1980 Professor Tom Sutherland is is released after being held six 1980s years as a political prisoner of the from Vietnam. The University receives its first kidnapped by terrorists (June 9) while working in Lebanon. Islamic Jihad. 1974 $1 million endowed chair. The Soviet Union dissolves, The North Central Association Colorado’s population is Physiology Professor Robert marking the official end of the (NCA) accords CSU mature 2,888,834; Fort Collins’ is 65,092. Phillips is chosen by NASA to fly Cold War. university status. as payload specialist aboard the 1981 Space Shuttle. 1992 The Family Educational Rights Ralph E. The TABOR (Taxpayers Bill of and Privacy Act (Buckley Christoffersen 1986 Rights) Amendment becomes Amendment, FERPA) establishes becomes the The state anti-smoking ban is Colorado law. students’ right to access to their 10th president extended to all Colorado State records, challenge content, and of CSU. University buildings by Gov. 1993 control personally identifiable Richard Lamm. In Jennifer Roberts et al v. disclosure. 1987 Colorado State University, the 1975 The University opens the Equine Supreme Court rules CSU is in Southern Colorado State College The Downtown Development Teaching and Research Center. violation of Title IX provisions becomes University of Southern Authority is established to and requires the reinstatement of Colorado with its revised mission renovate Old Town Fort Collins. President Austin abolishes women’s softball. to include liberal arts, industrial College Days following 1982 consecutive years of destructive Professor Marty Fettman technology, and technical becomes the first veterinarian in The High Country Athletic vandalism. community college programs. space, as part of the crew of the Conference is established for Anheuser-Busch opens a brewery Space Shuttle Columbia. 1976 women’s intercollegiate athletics in Fort Collins. Hewlett-Packard establishes a under NCAA auspices. 1994 branch in Fort Collins. 1989 The Pingree Park Campus 1983 Judson Harper CSU achieves Carnegie is heavily damaged by the Robert appointed Foundation Research I University Hourglass Fire. Phemister is interim Status. appointed president of 1995 The Big Thompson flood kills 151 interim Colorado State Colorado State begins people and destroys 52 businesses president. University. construction on the major and 323 homes. expansion and renovation of Morgan Library. 1978 Cooperative Institute for The Student Recreation Center 1996 Research in the Atmosphere 1984 opens on campus. Mary Crow, professor of English, conducts work on the first Philip Austin is named Colorado’s Poet satellite designed for launching becomes Laureate. from the Space Shuttle president of 1990 Colorado State 1990s CSU alumna Amy Van Dyken Challenger. Albert C. Yates University. wins four gold medals in Senate Bill 81 places the is named 12th swimming at the Olympic Games University of Southern Colorado president of in Atlanta. under SBA jurisdiction and Colorado State instructs the SBA to separate University. 1997 The Colorado State University On July 28, a devastating flood the technical college component System is created as the causes more than $100 million in from USC. comprehensive governing damage to CSU facilities.

1979 authority over CSU, Fort Lewis The Rams football team defeats Charles O. College, and USC. Philip Austin 1999 the Oregon Ducks in the Neidt is accepts the position of chancellor. The women’s basketball team, appointed Freedom Bowl. led by Becky Hammon and Chemistry Professor Albert acting The Americans with Disabilities Katie Cronin, makes the “Sweet Meyers makes a worldwide University Act is passed to outlaw Sixteen” round of the NCAA breakthrough by duplicating president. discrimination against disabled tournament. the way nature makes optical workers. isomers, the molecular Colorado State University leads arrangements in enzymes, 1991 seven other institutions in the pharmaceutical drugs, and other The Persian Gulf War begins break from the Western Athletic biologically important chemicals. against Iraq in response to Conference to form the new Saddam Hussein’s August 1990 Mountain West Conference. invasion of Kuwait.

3 CSU begins work to significantly 2006 University Center of the Arts 2000 expand its infectious disease opens in old Fort Collins High 2000s research capabilities, thanks CSU begins Green Building School building after $45 million The new core curriculum is to a $17 million National Certificate Program in response renovation. instituted on campus. Institutes of Health grant to to emerging practices in Dr. Anthony A. Frank is named 2001 enlarge the University’s Level 3 commercial and residential building. interim president. September 11 terrorist attacks biocontainment laboratory space. destroy World Trade Center The women’s volleyball team Gov. Bill Owens signs 2009 buildings and damage Pentagon proclamation naming April 18 at advances to “Sweet Sixteen” Computer Science building headquarters. “I love Colorado State University round in the NCAA tournament opens. for the fourth time in past five D ay.” 2003 Board of Governors of the years. CloudSat, the world’s most The Bohemian Foundation CSU System officially separate sensitive cloud-profiling donates a record gift of 2005 Chancellor and CSU-Fort Collins radar, developed by NASA in $20.1 million in funds: The National Institute of Allergy President position. a $4.9 million commitment to and Infectious Diseases awards collaboration with CSU and other the University Center for the Arts Colorado State University partners, launched into Orbit 438 Joseph B. Blake and a $15.2 million commitment $40 million to establish a miles above Earth. is named first sole chancellor to the renovation of Hughes Regional Center of Excellence Transit Center edition opens at of CSU System. Stadium. for Biodefense and Emerging Lory Student Center, becoming Infectious Diseases research and The State Board of Agriculture is first LEED building on campus; training. renamed the Board of Governors Guggenheim Hall first LEED remodel. of the Colorado State University Former Soviet Union president

System; the University of Mikhail Gorbachev speaks 2007 Southern Colorado becomes at Moby Arena as part of the Dr. Anthony A. Colorado State University - Monfort Lecture Series. CSU announces Supercluster’s Frank is named Pueblo; and Fort Lewis College concept with an aim to accelerate 14th president is legally separated from CSU Professor Karolin Luger is research to market. The first of CSU. named a Howard Hughes control. Supercluster focused on Medical Institute Investigator, infectious disease. 2003 an appointment that honors

Larry Edward the nation’s most promising Academic Village opens.

Penley is biomedical scientists. Rocky Mountain Regional Diagnostic Medical Center named 13th Edward M. Warner, noted Biocontainment Laboratory opens. president of geologist, philanthropist, and opens on Foothills Research Colorado State distinguished alumnus, donates a Campus. Indoor Practice Facility and University. total of $30 million to the College Academic and Training Center of Natural Resources. In honor of 2008 open. this gift, the college is renamed CSU-Global Campus begins the Warner College of Natural 2004 enrolling and educating students Resources at Colorado State online. The College of Engineering University. receives multi-million dollar Large tornado hits Windsor, grants from the National damages buildings at ARDEC. Science Foundation to create the Engineering Research Center for CSU Student Media separated Extreme Ultraviolet Light under from University and begins the leadership of Professor Jorge operation at non-profit Rocca. organization.