Abstract The Diane Berge collection is a paper that Diane Berge wrote for her American Higher Education class at the University of Minnesota, while studying for her doctorate degree in Higher Education. The paper, titled, “Mankato State University from Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic to Data Structures, Microcomputers and Robotics,” trace the development of MSU from the Normal School to the University with special emphasis on the development of the Computer Science Department from the early 1960s...