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Justin Smith Morrill
Justin Smith Morrill (April 14, 1810 – December 28, 1898). He was a Representative and Senator for from Vermont. He was main leader in the Morrill Acts which established federal funding for founding many public colleges and universities. -
Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards
Richards, was the first to found home economics movement, which was the application of science in the home. She was also the one to bring chemistry to the field of nutrition. Richard's was also the first women in America to be accepted by any school of science and technology, and the first women to graduate with a degree in chemistry. She earned all of this at Vassar College in 1870. -
The Morrill Act of 1862
The Morrill 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 focused on agriculture, military tactics, and engineering. In Arkansas the only schools that had this were the University of Arkansas and the U of A in Pine Bluff. -
Martha Van Rensselaer
Van Rensselaer, is the co-founding director of the College of Home Economics. Her founding led to establishment of the New York State College of Human Ecology in Ithaca, New York. She worked very hard in this field and had a huge passion for it. While she was educator she called this field of study “domestic science” and focused on key aspects of homemaking. She also got recognized by the League of Women Voters as one of the twelve most important women in America. -
Mary B. Welch
Taught home economics to women at Iowa State College, which is believed to be the first effort in the U.S. to teach home economics to college students. -
Land Grant Universities in AR
The University of Arkansas In Fayetteville is one of the two land grants in AR and was built 1871 and opened in 1872. Also the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff is a land grant -
Chemistry of cooking and cleaning: A manual for housekeepers
Ellen Richards publishes the manual for housekeepers. -
The Hatch Act of 1887
The Hatch Act expanded the land-grant program to include federal funding for research and experiment stations. -
Founding of American Home Economics Association
It was founded in 1908 as the American Home Economics Association by Ellen H. Richards. -
Smith Lever Act of 1914
Established a connecting with cooperative extension services to Land-grant universities. The extensions services were there to inform people in home economics, agriculture, leadership, 4-H, and many of public services. -
Smith Hughes Act of 1917
The Act promoted vocational agriculture to train people and provided federal fund for this program. Was the first vocational education act to isolate the vocational education from other parts of the comprehensive high school curriculum. -
The food industry introduced in classrooms
Food companies begin to hire food economists to help make recipes and other nutritional concepts for the classroom. -
George-Reed Act of 1929
This Act allowed schools a 4 year increase by funding $1 million annually to expand vocational education in Agriculture and Home economics. -
Agnes Faye Morgan
Morgan was the chair of Department of Home Economics at University of California Berkley. She was also appointed to serve on Presidents Roosevelt's first Nutritional Congress. -
Vocational Education Acts of 1963
Vocational Education Acts of 1963 was to expand the vocational education. Their goal was to attract baby boomer generation that was moving through the education system and improve the quality of training for them. -
Vocational Amendments of 1968 and 1973
The amendments increased funding and extended vocational education services to disadvantaged and disabled citizens. It also created a work studies program for the students. This eliminated federal control over these programs. -
Vocational Amendment of 1976
This amendment was to improve the standard for vocational programs and education. But to help disadvantaged students and to help eliminate sex bias/stereotyping in vocational education. -
Carl Perkins Vocational Act of 1984
This act increased funding, established bilingual vocational education, increased career counseling, and business/labor education partnerships. -
Carl Perkins Act of 1990
Provided vocational education to disadvantaged students and gave them a "school-to-work," environment, which was a two year program at community colleges. -
Name Change
The name got changed from Home Economics to Family Consumer Sciences.
