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Justin Smith Morrill/ Morrill Act
Allso known as the Land Grant College Act. It was a major boost to higher education in America. The grant was originally set up to establish institutions is each state that would educate people in agriculture, home economics, mechanical arts, and other professions that were practical at the time -
W.O. Atwater
Received his PhD in Chemistry from Yale University. Invented the Bomb Calorimeter. His studies contributed most to the emerging science of human nutrition and exercise. -
Land Grant University
an institution of higher education in the United States designated by a state to receive the benefits of the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890. -
Arkansas Land Grant Universities
University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff -
Lake Placid Conference
The first lake placid conference that began the creation of the American Home Economics Association -
Caroline Hunt
Appointed as first professor of home economics at Univ. of Wisconsin. She argued that training in home economics ought to liberate women from hardships of housework teach women to guard health and safety and that of their families and to simplify their lives -
American Home Economics Association creation
at the tenth conference, now called the American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences was created and Ellen H. Richards was elected its first president -
Smith Level Act
created the Cooperative Extension Service including FACS. -
Smith Hughes Act
Established FACS as part of Vocational (CTE) Education -
George-Reed Act
Under this legislation, "home economics education funds were allotted on the basis of rural population rather than urban" -
George-Deen Act
authorized approximately 14 million a year for vocational education in agriculture, home economics, trade, and industrial education -
Vocational Education Act
Created by congress to offer new and expanded vocational education programs to bring job training into harmony with the industrial, economic, and social realities of today and the needs for tomorrow. the act is comprehensive. it is available to and concerned about unemployed and employed workers of all ages at all levels for all fields in both rural and urban areas -
Accreditation
Accreditation of undergraduate programs in home economics begins -
Vocational Amendment Act of 1968 & 1973
Vocational Education Act is amended to include handicapped and disadvantaged students -
Carl Perkins Vocational Act
Focused on social and economic issues. The goals were to improve the effectiveness of consumer and homemaking education and reduce the limiting effects of sex-role stereotyping on occupations, jobs skills, levels of competency and careers. -
Carl Perkins Act
Authorized the largest amount of funds than ever before.The intentions were to assist schools in teaching for a technologically advanced society. -
Rethinking Women and Home Economics
Cornell University sponsors a conference entitled "Rethinking Women and Home Economics in the 20th Century" -
Family and Consumer Sciences
AHEA voted to change the name of the profession from Home Economics to Family and Consumer Sciences (FACS).
(UCA changed new name in August of 1994) -
Carl Perkins Act
Increased federal funding to nearly $1.3 billion, for CTE programs and it changed the name of vocational education to career and technical education. -
Lake Bonneville Summit
Brigham Young University Idaho holds its first Lake Bonneville Summit to commemorate and generate positive professional networks in the Southeast Idaho area
