Development History

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This project was conceptualized in 1991 by Kate Kiefer, Mike Palmquist, Dawn Rodrigues, and Don Zimmerman. Funding was obtained from the Colorado Commission on Higher Education's Programs of Excellence competition in 1992 and ran through June 1998. During this period, Mike Palmquist and Don Zimmerman served as project directors. Palmquist focused on design and development, while Zimmerman focused on assessment. Initial development was conducted in Asymetrix Multimedia Toolbook and resources were made available through the University's wide area network.

In 1996 and 1997, the materials were converted for use on the Web. The site used the same name -- the Colorado State University Online Writing Center -- that it had used when it was a network application.

In 1998, the site was renamed the Writing Center to reflect the convergence of efforts between the Writing Center Web site and the Campus Writing Center.

In 2001, a new name -- Writing@CSU -- was chosen to emphasize the center's commitment to creating a community of writers centered on but extending beyond Colorado State University.

The Writing Studio project, which allows writers to create and save work in password-protected accounts, began in 1999 and was officially announced in December 2004.

In August 2005, the Writing Studio and Writing@CSU sites were combined into a single Web-based learning environment.