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Colorado State University is a land-grant and a Carnegie Doctoral/
Research University-Extensive. CSU was founded as the Colorado Agricultural College in 1870, six years before the Colorado Territory gained statehood. It was one of 68 land-grant colleges established under the Morrill Act of 1862. In 1935, the school became the Colorado State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, and in 1957 was renamed Colorado State University.
Today, Colorado State University consists of eight colleges, 1,540 faculty, and 27,000 resident instruction students from every state and 85 countries. Colorado residents comprise 80% of all students; 14% of those represent ethnic minorities.
The library’s holdings include more than 2 million books, bound journals, and government documents. PCs and laptops are available to access the library’s online catalog, specialized databases, and the Internet. The library subscribes to thousands of print journals that can be accessed in the library and more than 430,000 electronic resources. Many journals are available electronically (on site or through remote access) and through expedited interlibrary loan.
CSU is located in Fort Collins, a midsize city of approximately 126,800, in northern Colorado at the western edge of the Great Plains and at the base of the beautiful Rocky Mountains.
The Department of Design and Merchandising is one of eight units within the College of Applied Human Sciences.
The Department of Design and Merchandising
• Embraces a vision of excellence in the tripartite activities of teaching, research, and outreach.
• Offers three academic programs, each leading to a Bachelor of Science degree:
o Apparel Design and Production,
o Interior Design (CIDA accredited), and
o Merchandising.
• Offers a Master of Science degree in two specializations:
o Apparel and merchandising, and
o Interior design.
• Has received $6 million industry software gifts donated by Lectra Systems.
• Offers large lecture, small studio, and laboratory class sizes with access to state-of-the-art computing facilities.
• Has faculty members who have won prestigious national and international awards.
• Has 13 full-time faculty positions, plus additional special faculty appointments and adjuncts, serving over 600 undergraduate students and 35 graduate students.