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Established federal funding for higher education in every state.
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An institution that was designed by its state legislature or Congress to receive the benefits of the Morrill Act. Colleges of agriculture is intertwined with the history of higher education.
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University of Arkansas & University of Arkansas Pine Bluff
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Authorized strengthening the capacity of land-grant universities to research agricultural problems faced by rural citizens.
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Known for his studies of human nutrition and invented the respiration calorimeter.
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The first professor of home economics at the University of Wisconsin.
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Founded the American Home Economics Association.
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The American Home Economics Association was chartered.
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Federal law that established a system of cooperative extension services that is connected to the land grant universities. It helped farmers learn new agricultural techniques.
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Promoted vocational education in agriculture, trades and industry, and homemaking, and provided federal funds for this purpose.
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The American Home Economics Association adopted the Betty Lamp as a symbol for the association.
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Provided grants to states to maintain, improve, and develop vocational-technical education programs.
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Established broadened objectives and enlarged appropriations but did not tie funds to performance.
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Put in place to correct the problem of discrimination against people with disabilities in the United States.
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The purpose was to overcome sex discrimination/bias.
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Aims to increase the quality of technical education within the United States in order to help the economy. First authorized by the government at this time.
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Reauthorized by the government.
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The organization changed its name to the American Association of Family & Consumer Sciences.
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Reauthorized by the government.
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Took the place of the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service.