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Land Grant universities
The universities benefitting from the Morrill acts were called land grant universities. Not only were the Morrill acts in 1862 but also 1890. In 1890 land grant universities were created for African American students. Today many of these universities are HBCUs including Tuskegee university in Alabama. In Arkansas land grant universities include University of Arkansas and University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. -
Catharine Beecher
The Treatise on Domestic Economy for the Use of Young Ladies at Home was written by Catharine Beecher and was considered by some as the first home economics text book. FACS is an evolved version of home economics. Catharine Beecher's book was part of the reason why home economics and eventually FACS exist. -
Morrill Act
The Morrill act of 1862 allowed land to be granted to states to specialize in "agriculture and the mechanic arts." Some states used the money for new colleges others donated it to existing schools for the betterment of the agriculture and mechanic arts programs. The colleges that benefitted from the Morrill acts were land grant universities. -
Kansas State
Governor Thomas Carney accepted the Morrill act in Kansas and Kansas State became the first land grant university to exist. It was named the Kansas State Agricultural College. -
Chemistry of Cooking and Cleaning: A manual for Housekeepers
The Book Chemistry of Cooking and Cleaning: A manual for Housekeepers was written by Ellen H. Swallow Richards to explain the science behind household tasks such as baking bread or removing stains. She thought it best to educate those doing these tasks so they have that knowledge and explain their housework. -
Hatch act
The hatch act provided funding for experimental stations at land-grant universities. It also gave information on how producers can have more productive growing conditions and overall a more productive agricultural system. This was allowed with the help of experimental stations that were provided at the land-grant universities. -
First Home economics meeting was held
The first meeting regarding home economics was held at Lake Placid. This was the first of many meetings that helped begin the FACS association. -
The first female MIT graduate
Ellen H. Swallow Richards was the first female to graduate from MIT. She studied chemistry and was an activist for nutrition, child protection, and scientific and management techniques. In 1909 she gathered with other like minded individuals and created the American Home Economics Association which later became the American Association of Family & Consumer Sciences. -
Girls tomato club
A girl named Sadie Linner wrote a piece about her tomato garden. She desired to work like her male counterparts as a farmer. She knew she had the skill to work as a tomato farmer she just was not allowed as a woman. Tomato clubs started around the state of South Carolina. These clubs evolved into 4H camps. -
Smith-Lever act
The Smith Lever act was an act to help educate those living in rural America about the advancements of agriculture. This act cause a great amount of progress in the agricultural field. This act allowed partnership between schools and the USDA to work together better. -
Smith Hughes act
The Smith Hughes act was created to provide education in agriculture, home economics, and industrial trades. This education was supposed to be provided to students planning on going to college. The act was ambitious and some believed that it reinforced race-based inequalities. The act was introduced by Hoke Smith and Rep. D.M. Hughes. -
The Betty Lamp
The Betty lamp was adopted as the symbol for FACS. This lamp provided strong light in households. It represents that FACS is the light of the household industry. -
Vocational education act
The vocational education act aimed to educate those who needed vocational training before getting a college education. There was a demand for more people to enter the workforce but not enough trained to do so. President Johnson signed off on this act and made it possible. -
Vocational amendment
The Vocational amendment of 1968 amended to include handicapped individuals who wanted to receive vocational education. -
Vocational Rehabilitation Act
This act allows handicapped individuals to get jobs and prohibits discrimination based on any handicap. If the individual is able to do the job they are able to be considered for the job. -
Vocational amendment of 1976
This amendment was to make it so gender based discrimination was not allowed. Scholarships were not rewarded based on sex but rather the ability to show that those scholarships could be attained. Vocational education was taught to everyone who wanted it not only men. -
Carl Perkins act
The Carl Perkins act was sponsored by Carl Perkins a member of the house of representatives from Kentucky. The act aimed increase the quality of technical education. The act wanted to maintain the changes that were seen in vocational programs and modernize them. -
American Association of Family & Consumer Sciences.
In 1994 the American Home Economics Association became the American Association of Family & Consumer Sciences. -
Home Economics name change
The Family and Consumer Sciences program felt the need to change their name to accurately reflect the family and consumer sciences mission and values. The name was changed from home economics to Family and Consumer sciences -
AAFCS centennial celebration
AAFCS turns 100 years old
