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Dame Schools
These schools taught sewing, counting, The Bible, and reading. A dame school was an early form of a private elementary school in English-speaking countries. They were usually taught by women and were often located in the home of the teacher. -
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FACS Timeline
This timeline was created to educate people on the important events in FACS history. -
Justin Smith Morrill
He was a Representative and a Senator from Vermont, most widely remembered today for the Morrill Land-Grant Acts that established federal funding for establishing many of the United States' public colleges and universities. -
Ellen Richards was born
Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards was the founder of the home economics movement characterized by the application of science to the home, and the first to apply chemistry to the study of nutrition. -
Wilbur Olin Atwater was born
He is credited with developing the Atwater system, laying the groundwork, in the 19th century, for the science of nutrition in the United States and inspiring modern Olympic nutrition. -
Morrill Act of 1862
The Act of 1862 established federal funding for universities by land that would be distributed to at least one University in each state. It would provide 30,000 acres per state Senator and Representative based off the 1860 census. The school focuses on agriculture, engineering, and military tactics. The schools were to be known as "Land grant Schools". -
Martha Van Rensselaer
Martha Van Rensselaer was a founding co-director of the College of Home Economics, which led to the establishment of the New York State College of Human Ecology in Ithaca, New York. Van Rensselaer served as an educator and proponent of the application of knowledge to improved quality of life in the home. -
Land Grant Universities in AR
The federal Morrill Land Grant Act granted lands to Arkansas that could be sold, the revenues from which could then be used to pay for creation of the university. -
The Hatch Act of 1887
An Act to establish agricultural experiment stations in connection with the colleges established in the several States under the provisions of an act approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and of the acts supplementary thereto. -
Lake Placid Conference
The first meeting of contemporaries in the field of home economics was held at the Lake Placid Club in 1899. The Lake Placid Conferences, as they are called were, for the most part, held at the Club for the first ten years. These conferences were conducted to meet and talk about the latest advances in the subject. The group believed home economics would allow students the opportunity to manage their own homes and be prepared for careers focused on people and the environments around them. -
Founding of American Home Economics Association
American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences (AAFCS) is an American professional association that networks professionals in the area of family and consumer science. It was founded in 1908 as the American Home Economics Association by Ellen H. Richards. -
Smith Lever Act of 1914
The Smith Lever Act of 1914 established a system to connect cooperative extension services to Land-grant universities. The cooperative extension services were to inform people about current developments in agriculture such as, home economics, public policy/government, leadership, 4-H, economic development, coastal issues and other related matters. -
Smith Hughes Act of 1917
The Smith Hughes Act of 1917 promoted vocational agriculture to train people "who have entered upon or who are preparing to enter upon the work of the farm," and provided federal funds for this purpose. Was the first vocational education act to isolate the vocational education from other parts of the comprehensive high school curriculum. -
Vocational Education Acts of 1963 and 1973
The Vocational Education Act of 1963 authorized a major expansion and redirection of vocational education. Its goals were to enroll a larger proportion of the baby boom generation that was moving through the educational system and to improve the kinds and quality of training available to them. -
Vocational Amendments of 1968
The amendments increased funding and extended vocational education services to disadvantaged and disabled citizens. It created work study programs to provide students with financial support. It also eliminated federal control over vocational program -
Vocational Amendment of 1976
The amendments were made to improve the standards of vocational education but also to expand offerings to disadvantaged students and eliminate sex bias and stereotyping in vocational education. -
Carl Perkins Vocational Act of 1984
The Carl Perkins Vocational Act of 1984 increased funding, increased career counseling, established bilingual vocational education, and business/labor education partnerships. -
Carl Perkins Act of 1990
The Carl Perkins Act of 1990 provided vocational education to those disadvantage students and give a “school-to-work” two year programs at community colleges by reauthorizing the 1984 Perkins Act and increased vocational education funding through 1995 to $1.6 billion. -
American Home Economics Association name changed
In 1994 American Home Economics Association changed its name to American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences (AAFCS). The association currently acts as a professional network primarily for professors and teachers of home economics and related courses, but also includes large numbers from government, business and non-profit organizations. -
Carl Perkins Act 0f 2006
In 2006 as a response to the economy the Carl Perkins Act 0f 2006 was passed to increase vocational education and increase academic and technical standards. -
Carl Perkins Act 0f 2006
In 2006 as a response to the economy the Carl Perkins Act 0f 2006 was passed to increase vocational education and increase academic and technical standards.
