FCS Profession

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  • Ellen Richards Graduates MIT

    MIT grants Ellen Richards a Bachelor of Science

  • The Great Sanitary Survey

    Ellen conducts surveys that modernize municipal sewage treatment, and develop water purity tables, and water quality standards.

  • Morrill Act Passes

    furthering funding for black student colleges.

  • First School Lunch Program

    Ellen started the first nutritional lunch program in Boston.

  • First Lake Placid Conference

    The first Lake Placid Conference began the creation of the American Home Economics Association.

  • American Home Economics Association

    At the 10th Conference, the AHEA was formed.

  • Smith-Lever Act of 1914

    Established Cooperative Extension Service, federal funding to support what's now called Career and Technical Education. (CTE)

  • Smith-Hughes Act

    Established federal support for vocational education.

  • Home Economics and the American Association of Land-Grant Colleges

    Home Economics is added to the American Association of Land-Grant Colleges.

  • First Nutrition Congress

    Agnes Faye Morgan sits on President Roosevelt's First Nutrition Congress.

  • Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics

    The USDA Bureau of Home Economics becomes the Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics.

  • Specialized Food Programs

    Specialized food programs emerge

  • Accreditation

    Accreditation of undergraduate programs in home economics began.

  • Vocational Education Act

    Vocation Education Act pushed for gainful employment outside the home.

  • AHEA Launches Project 2000

    AHEA launched Project 2000 to enhance programs to meet diversity needs.

  • Name Change

    Name changed from Home Economics to Family and Consumer Sciences.

  • 100 Year Celebration

    100-year celebration held nationally for the organization of AAFCS,