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Colorado State University (Colorado State or CSU) is a public land-grant research university in Fort Collins, Colorado, United States. It is the flagship university of the Colorado State University System. It was founded in 1870 as Colorado Agricultural College and assumed its current name in 1957. [6]
[6] [7] [8] Quizlet's blog, written mostly by Andrew in the earlier days of the company, claims it had reached 50,000 registered users in 252 days online. [9] In the following two years, Quizlet reached its 1,000,000th registered user. [10] Until 2011, Quizlet shared staff and financial resources with the Collectors Weekly website. [11]
The university encouraged students to take online-courses such as MOOCs and complete assessment tests at the university to receive credit. [160] As of 2013 few students had applied for college credit for MOOC classes. [161] Colorado State University-Global Campus received no applications in the year after they offered the option. [160]
CSU Global first opened in September 2008. CSU Global was legally sanctioned as a third, independent University on March 18, 2009, when Colorado’s Governor Ritter signed into law the State of Colorado Senate Bill 09-086 declaring the establishment of the CSU Global as an online university that is part of the Colorado State University System.
“This is KCSU FM, 90.9 megacycles, in Fort Collins, Colorado, the voice of Colorado State University.” September 21, 1964- The above introduction was the first statement ever made over the air by KCSU. KCSU began as a student operated station and broadcast at 800 watts from a transmitter located at the corner of Prospect Road and Shields ...
In 1978, the Colorado Commission on Higher Education designated USC as a polytechnic institution. In 1985, USC was integrated into the newly created Colorado State University System (CSU System) with Colorado State University, Colorado's land-grant university, and Fort Lewis College. In 2002, Fort Lewis College chose to be a separate entity.
The Territorial Library and Cabinet was created on November 6, 1861. [2] The Territorial Superintendent of Public Schools was named the Ex Officio Librarian. [2] This institution became the state library when Colorado became a U. S. state in 1876. [2]
In 2003, Governor Owens vetoed the section of the Colorado State budget that funded the Regional Library Service Systems amongst other budget cuts affecting a large number of libraries in Colorado. [2] Each of the regions closed their offices and laid off staff. By the end of 2004, the Regional Library Service Systems no longer existed.