Editing Colorado (section)

==Education==
{{main|List of colleges and universities in Colorado|List of high schools in Colorado}}
{{See also|Table of Colorado school districts|Table of Colorado charter schools|Auraria Campus}}

The first institution of [[Higher education in the United States|higher education]] in the Colorado Territory was the [[Colorado Seminary]], opened on November 16, 1864, by the [[Methodist Episcopal Church]]. The seminary closed in 1867 but reopened in 1880 as the [[University of Denver]]. In 1870, the Bishop [[George M. Randall (bishop)|George Maxwell Randall]] of the [[Episcopal Church (United States)|Episcopal Church]]'s [[Episcopal Diocese of Colorado|Missionary District of Colorado and Parts Adjacent]] opened the first of what become the [[Colorado University Schools]] which would include the [[Colorado School of Mines|Territorial School of Mines]] opened in 1873 and sold to the Colorado Territory in 1874. These schools were initially run by the Episcopal Church.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.calvarygolden.net/history|title=A Brief History of Calvary Church|access-date=April 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160601235528/http://www.calvarygolden.net/history|archive-date=June 1, 2016|location=[[Golden, Colorado|Golden, CO]]|publisher=Calvary Episcopal Church}}</ref> An 1861 territorial act called for the creation of a public university in Boulder, though it would not be until 1876 that the [[University of Colorado Boulder|University of Colorado]] was founded.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/University-of-Colorado|title=University of Colorado|encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia Britannica|editor=Chelsey Parrott-Sheffer|access-date=March 25, 2021}}</ref> The 1876 act also renamed Territorial School of Mines as the [[Colorado School of Mines]].<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Colorado-School-of-Mines|encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia Britannica|title=Colorado School of Mines|access-date=March 25, 2021}}</ref> An 1870 territorial act created the [[Colorado State University|Agricultural College of Colorado]] which opened in 1879.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Colorado-State-University-Colorado|encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia Britannica|title=Colorado State University|access-date=March 25, 2021}}</ref> The college was renamed the [[Colorado State University|Colorado State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts]] in 1935, and became [[Colorado State University]] in 1957.

The first [[List of Catholic universities and colleges in the United States|Catholic college]] in Colorado was the [[Society of Jesus|Jesuit]] Sacred Heart College, which was founded in New Mexico in 1877, moved to [[Morrison, Colorado|Morrison]] in 1884, and to Denver in 1887. The college was renamed Regis College in 1921 and [[Regis University]] in 1991.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.regis.edu/about/history-mission/our-history|title=Our History|publisher=[[Regis University]]|access-date=March 25, 2021}}</ref> On April 1, 1924, armed students patrolled the campus after a [[cross burning|burning cross]] was found, the climax of tensions between Regis College and the locally-powerful Ku Klux Klan.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://issuu.com/regisuniversity/docs/regis_20alumni_20magazine_20fall_20|title=The Hooded Empire: Remembering the Catholic Clash with the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s|magazine=Regis University Alumni Magazine|last=Graham|first=Luke|date=Fall 2017|access-date=March 25, 2021|location=[[Denver]]|pages=14–17}}</ref>

Following a 1950 assessment by the Service Academy Board, it was determined that there was a need to supplement the [[U.S. Military Academy|U.S. Military]] and [[U.S. Naval Academy|Naval Academies]] with a third school that would provide commissioned officers for the newly independent Air Force. On April 1, 1954, President [[Dwight Eisenhower]] signed a law that moved for the creation of a [[U.S. Air Force Academy]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=9G8pAAAAIBAJ&pg=6899%2C3318710|newspaper=Spokesman-Review |location=(Spokane, Washington)|agency=Associated Press|title=Air Force Academy Act signed by Eisenhower|date=April 2, 1954 |page=1|access-date=March 25, 2021}}</ref> Later that year, Colorado Springs was selected to host the new institution. From its establishment in 1955, until the construction of appropriate facilities in Colorado Springs was completed and opened in 1958, the Air Force Academy operated out of [[Lowry Air Force Base]] in Denver. With the opening of the Colorado Springs facility, the cadets moved to the new campus, though not in the full-kit march that some urban and campus legends suggest.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.usafa.org/Heritage/MarchIn|title=March-In Mystery Unraveled|publisher=Association of Graduates, United States Air Force Academy|last=Simon|first=Lt. Col. (Ret.) Steven A.|access-date=March 25, 2021}}</ref> The first class of [[United States Space Force|Space Force]] [[Officer (armed forces)|officers]] from the Air Force Academy commissioned on April 18, 2020.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.spaceforce.mil/News/Article/2155498/space-force-welcomes-first-academy-graduates-to-its-ranks/|title=Space Force welcomes first academy graduates to its ranks|date=April 18, 2020|access-date=April 6, 2021|publisher=[[U.S. Space Force]]|work=U.S. Space Force Public Affairs|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201223224135/http://www.spaceforce.mil/News/Article/2155498/space-force-welcomes-first-academy-graduates-to-its-ranks/|archive-date=December 23, 2020}}</ref>