1981 — Lloyd E. Worner retires from the presidency. He is succeeded on July 1 by Gresham Riley.

1982 — Faculty adopts new course requirements. Students must take two-units of Western studies and two units of non-Western studies in order to graduate.

1983 — Hanya Holm’s Summer Session dance classes end after 43 years.

1986 — To lighten the faculty workload, the academic year is reduced from nine to eight blocks. The "Eight Block Year" is controversial but proves successful once implemented.

1987 — Hulbert Center for Southwestern Studies established by NEH grant.

1981 — Women’s soccer is elevated to NCAA Division I team.

1985 — Former ice hockey great and director of intramurals Tony Frasca retires, opens Panino’s Restaurant on Tejon St.

President Riley proposes an official college antidiscrimination policy towards gays and lesbians. The board adopted the measure in 1987.

1986 — Students raise a shantytown in front of Armstrong Hall to encourage divestiture from stocks of corporations doing business in apartheid South Africa.

1988 — Establishment of the Center for Community Service

1983 — Consultant Richard Dober of Belmont, Mass., is hired to "plan" the future of the Colorado College campus. The planning study eventually results in the construction of a new student center, the Worner Center, and a new science building, the Barnes Science Center. The plan also recommends acquisition of residential blocks later developed as the East Campus.

1984 The College shifts from mainframe computers to personal computers. Personal computers are placed in the dormitories to facilitate student use.

1985 — Riley launches a $43.5 million fund-raising campaign, the most ambitious to date.

1986 — Worner Center erected around the old Rastall Center.

Late chemistry professor Otis Barnes leaves a $4 million bequest to the college, the largest bequest by a faculty member to an institution.

College acquires the Baca Campus in the San Luis Valley from the Aspen Institute.

Tutt Alumni House dedicated.

1987 — The Children's Center opens to provide all-day child care for Colorado College faculty and staff. The College is one of the first institutions in Colorado Springs to provide workplace child care for its employees.

1988 — Barnes Science Center opens.

1992 — President Riley announces his resignation effective June 30.  Music Professor Michael Grace serves as Acting President during the 1992-93 academic year.

1993 — Kathryn Mohrman assumes the presidency on July 1.

1995 — 25^th anniversary of the Block Plan celebrated.

Women's Studies major created at Colorado College, symbolizing the increased attention paid to women's issues at the College during the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.

1997 — The "D" grade is reinstituted, creating an "A-B-C-D-No Credit" grade system. It is hoped the "D" grade will slow down "grade inflation" at Colorado College.

1999 — 125^th anniversary (quasquicentennial) to be marked with symposium on cultures in the 21^st Century.

1994 — Athletic Hall of Fame established

Student referendum to change mascot from Tiger to Colorado Cutthroat Trout narrowly fails.

1996 — A revived Colorado College men's ice hockey team, coached by Don Lucia, finishes second to the University of Michigan in the NCAA Division I men's ice hockey championships.

1997 — A student pub and night club, the LEW, opens in the lower realms of Worner Center.

1998 — Colorado Springs World Arena, new home ice for the men's ice hockey team, opens.

1998 — Two of three fraternities move to East Campus, and all change to lodge systems; third fraternity and the three sororities scheduled to complete move to East Campus by fall 1999.

1992 — Following a fire of unknown origin, the Colorado College Cabin, located in the mountains west of Divide, Colo., is rebuilt and used for student outings and off-campus classroom sessions.

Statue of Charles Leaming Tutt Jr. erected in front of Tutt Library. Prior to major athletic contests, the statue is frequently dressed in the appropriate sports uniform for the upcoming "big game."

1995 — The computer revolution hits full force when Colorado College students do all their course registration by computer rather than in person in the Registrar's Office.

1997 — City of Colorado Springs approves college’s Master Plan and vacating a block of Yampa Street for East Campus (area between Nevada, Weber, Uintah, and Cache La Poudre); construction begins on East Campus.

1998 — "A Course of Distinction: The Campaign for Colorado College," an $83 million comprehensive fund-raising effort, kicks off.

100^th anniversary of Washburn Field and dedication of Autrey Field on East Campus