• 20 February 1981
  Mike Erlinger submits materials to be considered for hiring.
• 18 March 1981
  Offer letter from HMC
• 9 April 1981
  Mike Erlinger accepts position at HMC
• 1 July 1981
  Michael Erlinger's start date as an Assistant Professor at HMC.
  
  Comment: Mike was not hired into a specific department. The idea was that during his first year he would make recommendations as to whether Computer Science should develop in an existing department or a new administrative entity.
• 13 November 1984
  Faculty Meeting: The final report of the Computer Science Steering Committee was discussed.
• 20 April 1985
  Faculty Meeting: The faculty approved "the amended recommendations of the Computer Science Steering Committee". Important items of those recommendations included:
  • The establishment of a Department of Computer Science and a Department of Biology, the two joined as a single administrative unit.
  • A senior level appointment in Computer Science to help in the further development of Computer Science at the college was approved.
  Comment: The appointment of a senior person in Computer Science was an unfunded recommendation of the faculty.
• 1 December 1988
  Faculty Meeting: "Beginning with the class of 1993, students should be able to major in Biology..."
• 15 February 1990
  Faculty Meeting: "The faculty support the introduction of a major program in computer science under the auspices of the Computer Science Department after the senior-level position is filled... The Computer Science Department shall be an academically and administratively separate unit with the same status, responsibilities, privileges, and access to resources as the other departments in the sciences and mathematics."
• 28 February 1991
  Faculty Meeting: Professor Purves reported on the number of students who have declared Biology as a major.
  Comment: Biology interpreted the December 1988 statement as indicating when students could graduate as a Biology Major, not when students could start majoring in Biology.
• 1 July 1991
  Professor Robert Keller is hired as the senior person in Computer Science.
• 25 November 1991
  The Proposed Computer Science Major was approved by the FEC. This fulfills all the requirements of the 15 February 1990 faculty Motion on Computer Science.
• 5 December 1991
  Faculty Meeting: Professor Keller discussed the curriculum for the proposed Computer Science major.
  Comment: I can find no specific faculty action that says: Computer Science is NOW a major. The faculty resolution of 15 February 1990 was slowly fulfilled, but there does not seem to be any proclamation announcing Computer Science as a major.
• May 1992
  First two Computer Science graduates: Andrew Gray and Clifford Stein
• Academic Year 1993-94
  Computer Science Clinic began with 3 projects: Aerospace, Microsoft, and Optivus (Electus Technology).
• May 1994
  First "full" Computer Science graduates
  First woman Computer Science graduate, Jill E. Flansburg
  
• 28 September 2019
  Ground breaking for McGregor CS building
  

Mike Erlinger