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Catherine Beecher
Wrote 33 books of which almost all content was related to home economics. She also wrote A Treatice on Domestic Economics which was the first textbook to be recognized by a state department of education for home economics. -
Ellen Richards
Richards is known as the founder of Home Economics. She was an environmental chemist who was a pioneer in sanitary engineering and was also the first female to be admitted to MIT. -
W.O. Atwater
Known as the father of nutrition, Atwater conducted studies on food analysis, digestibility of foods, energy requirements for work, and even the economics of food production. He also persuaded the US government to fund studies of human nutrition. -
Land Grant Univerity
A land grant university or college is an institution that has been chosen by its state legislature or congress to receive the benefits of the Morrill Act of 1862, 1890, and 1994. -
Justin Smith Morrill/Morrill Act of 1862
Justin Smith Morrill was a Congressman and Senator from Vermont who sponsored the Morrill Act. The Morrill Act of 1892, also known as the Land Grant College Act, donated public lands to certain states to build colleges that would educate students on agriculture, home economics, and mechanical arts. -
Martha Van Rensselaer
Martha was a co-founder of the College of Home Economics and eventually led to the establishment of the New York State College of Home Ecology. She served as an educator for the field of study she called “domestic science” and focused on the key aspects of homemaking. -
Land Grant Universities in Arkansas
The land grant universities in Arkansas are the University of Arkansas and the University of Arkansas Pine Bluff. -
AHEA founded
The American Home Economics Association was founded in 1909 in Lake Placid, New York. -
Smith Lever Act of 1914
This act established a national Cooperative Extention Service that branched out from land grant universities in order to educate rural Americans of the advances and practices of agriculture. -
Smith Hughes Act of 1917
This act provided federal aid to the states for the purpose of promoting precollege vocational education in agriculture and industrial trades and in home economics. -
Lulu Graves
Graves was an American dietitian who served as the first president of the American Dietetic Association from 1917 until 1920. -
American Dietetics Association (ADA) founded
Founded in 1917 by people who say the need for people to be educated in the science of nutrition and trained in the art for feeding people. -
FCCLA formed
Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America is a nationwide career and technical student organization for students in Family and Consumer Sciences classes. It was formed in 1945. -
Vocational Education Acts of 1963
This act provided grants to states to maintain, improve, and develop vocational-technical education programs. -
The Vocational Educational Amendments of 1968
These amendments extended the work of the 1963 amendments by requiring state and national advisory councils and must submit a plan consisting of administrative policies and procedures. -
Vocational Rehabilitation Act of 1973
This act prohibits the discrimination on the basis of disability in programs run by federal agencies, programs recieving federal assistance financially, in the employment of federal workers, and in the employment practices of federal contractors. -
Vocational Amendment of 1976
This amendment requires states that receive federal funding for vocational education to develop and carry out activities and programs to get rid of gender bias, stereotyping and discrimination in vocational education. -
Scottsdale Conference
Meeting where professionals in FACS examined the mission, breadth, scope and name of AHEA. A new name was decided and new frameworks were released, setting the profession for the new century to come. -
Name changed to AAFCS
The American Home Economics Association changed its name to the American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences in 1994. (AAFCS) -
Carl Perkins Act
This act provides an increased focus on the academic achievement of career and technical education students, strengthens the connections between secondary and post secondary education, and improves state and local accountability.
