-
Period: to
Ellen Richards
Ellen Richards is a founder of AAFCS. She lunched the new field. She began the school lunch program in 1894. Ellen was a powerful leader.She tested products for nutrituous lunches at the 1894 Chicago World's Fair (Rumford Kitchen) -
Period: to
W.O. Atwater
W.O atwater invented the bomb calorimeter. He wrote nutriten bulltions for Richards' paper. He also created the metabolic chart. -
Morrill Act of 1862
President Lincon signed it into law. This law was donating public lands to colleges. Each state gets 30,000 acrs of ferderal land for each member in congress. -
Land Grant University's
A land grant university is benefit of the morrill act of 1862. They get to use the land. -
Period: to
Martha Van Rensselaer
Rensselaer was a Cornell University professor. She attended Lack Placid Conference in 1899. Rensselaer also developed the cooperative extension serviece. She was also the President of AAFCS. -
Land Grant University's in AR
University of Arkansas
University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff -
Period: to
Carolyn Hunt
Hunt conducted two important studies of immigrant and ethnic populations in Chicago. -
Lake Placid Conference
Eleven leaders gatherd in Lake Placid, NY. This is where the name Home Economics was adopted. -
Amercian Association of Family and Consumer Sciences
This is when the name changed from Amercain Home Economics Assoication to AAFCS. -
Smith Lever Act of 1914
A federal law that establised the systems of cooperative extension services, connected to te land-grant univesities to inform people about the developments of the agriculture,home and econimics. -
Smith Hughes Act of 1917
This act provided federal aid to states for the purpose of promoting vocational education in agricultural trades and in home economics for secondary education. -
Vocational Education Act of 1963
This act provided grants to states to improve and develop vocational education. -
Vocational Amendment of 1968
Extenstion of the Vocational Education Act of 1963. This act provides federal funs for vocational edcation programs. -
Vocational Amendment of 1973
Title IX, this amendment prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in education programs. -
Vocational Amendment of 1976
This amendment requires states to develop and carry out programs to eliminate gender bias, discrimination and steryotyping in vocational education. -
Carl Perkins Vocational Act of 1984
Authorized by the federal government, aims to increase the quality of technical education in the U.S. -
Carl Perkins Act of 1990
This is the Applied Technology Act of 1990. The academic measures and contextual learning became major points to look at. More action was taken to help economically-disadvantaged students. -
Scottsdale Conference
The AHEA voted to change their name to AAFCS. -
UCA name change
In Aug 1994, UCA changed the name from AHEA to AAFCS -
Carl Perkins Act of 2006
The act is to develop the academic, career and technical skills of secondary education students and postsecondary education students who are in a career and technical education program.