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Ellen Swallow Richards
Ellen Richards was an incredibly intelligent woman who was a trained chemist and became the first ever woman to be admitted and to graduate from MIT. Because of her constant advocation for a women's lab, she was finally awarded a grant and was able to set one up and teach using it. Although it eventually closed, Mrs. Richards continued as a faculty member at MIT and contributed greatly to the field of FACS. -
Land Grant University - Arkansas
The first Land Grant University in Arkansas is the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. -
Justin Smith Morrill/Morrill Act of 1862
The Morrill Act of 1862, which was also known as the Land Grant College Act, changed higher education in America. The grant was originally set up to establish institutions in each state that would educate communities on agriculture, home economics, mechanical arts, and other professions. The land-grant act was introduced by Justin Smith Morrill who was a congressman from Vermont at the time. -
Land Grant University
A land grant university is an institution that is eligible to receive benefits through the Morrill Acts. There are land grant universities in every state, in Arkansas, our Lang Grant University is the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. -
Martha Van Rensselaer
Martha Van Rensselaer was a founding co-director of the College of Home Economics, which led to the establishment of the New York State College of Human Ecology. Van Rensselaer served as an educator and proponent of the application of knowledge to improved quality of life in the home. She called the field of study “domestic science” and focused on key aspects of homemaking. 1923 the League of Women Voters recognized her as one of the twelve most important women in America. -
Land Grant University- University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff
The second Land Grant University in Arkansas is the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. -
Lake Placid Conferences
The Lake Placid Conferences were held in Lake Placid, New York. They were used as a meeting place for professionals interested in the home economics field. They would discuss the latest advancements in the subject to broaden their knowledge and take it back to the classrooms and communities in which they taught. Many influential women attended these such as Ellen Richards and Caroline Hunt. -
Caroline Hunt
Caroline Hunt became the first professor of home economics at the University of Wisconsin in 1903. -
Founding of American Home Economics Association
American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences (AAFCS) is an American professional association that networks professionals in the area of family and consumer science. It was founded in 1908 as the American Home Economics Association by Ellen H. Richards. -
Smith Lever Act of 1914
The Smith-Lever Act established a national Cooperative Extension Service that extended outreach programs through land-grant universities to educate rural Americans about advances in agricultural practices and technology. -
Smith Hughes Act of 1917
The Smith Hughes Act of 1917 promoted vocational agriculture to train people "who have entered upon or who are preparing to enter upon the work of the farm," and provided federal funds for this purpose.This was the first vocational education act to isolate the vocational education from other parts of the comprehensive high school curriculum. -
Childcare Curriculum
Childcare recognized as a key element in the home economics curriculum. -
Undergraduate Programs
Accreditation of undergraduate programs in home economics begins. -
Vocational Education Act of 1963
The Vocational Education Act of 1963 authorized a major expansion and redirection of vocational education. Its goals were to enroll a larger proportion of the baby boom generation that was moving through the educational system and to improve the kinds and quality of training available to them. -
Vocational Amendment of 1968
This act replaced the Vocation Education Acts of 1963 by updating the requirements for what the funds were to be used for, with a strong emphasis going towards service to help those who were the most severely disabled. It also provided a nondiscriminatory and an affirmative clause for government agencies and contractors in regard to potential employees with disabilities. -
Comprehensive Child Development Act
Congress states that millions of children are suffering from lack of child development service -
Vocational Amendment of 1973
The Rehabilitation Act of 1973 is the federal law that authorizes the formula grant programs for vocational rehabilitation, supported employment, independent living, and client assistance. -
Vocational Amendment of 1976
The amendments were made to improve the standards of vocational education but also to expand offerings to disadvantaged students and eliminate sex bias and stereotyping in vocational education. -
Name Change
AHEA voted to change the name of profession to Family and Consumer Sciences. -
Carl Perkins Act
The Perkins Act, authorizes federal funds to support vocational education programs. One of the goals for the Perkins Act is to improve the access of either those who have been underserved in the past or those who have greater-than-average educational needs.