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Morrill Act of 1862/Justin Smith Morrill
The Morrill Act was signed by Abraham Lincoln. This act would help states in financing colleges that would teach mechanic arts and agriculture, like military sciences and engineering. Grants for land were made to the states. -
Land Grant University
Land grant universities are institutions of higher education in the US designated by a state to receive benefits of the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890. -
Land Grant Universities in AR
University of Arkansas established as a land grant institution in 1871
University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff was founded in 1873 and opened as a land grant institution in 1875. -
Ellen Swallow Richards
Richards was the first woman to be admitted to, and graduate from MIT (in 1873). She studied and taught chemistry. A noteable thing is she made nutritious foods at the Chicago World's Fair in 1894. Something interesting she did was test water for pollutants and safety. -
Carolyn Hunt
Hunt worked with W.O. Atwater and went to the Lake Placid Conferences. She got her degree in 1888 in chemistry. Her work was important because she studied ethnic and immigrant groups. -
W.O. Atwater
Atwater is the Father of Nutrition and inventor of the bomb calorimeter. He received a PhD from Yale in chemistry in 1869. Atwater studied metabolism rates and exercise. In 1888 he was the first person to test chemical analysis of food in the US. -
1894 Chicago World's Fair-Rumford Kitchen
Ellen Swallow Richards came up with the idea to serve nutritious foods at the fair. The Rumford Kitchen was created to serve many families in just a couple months. -
Benjamin Thompson/Count Rumford
American born inventor and scientist. He invented the very first range that included temperature controls. The Rumford Kitchen was named after him, featured in the Chicago World's Fair. He stated that nutrition is a science. -
Lake Placid Conference
This meeting was held at Lake Placid New York. "Home economics" was decided to be the name of the group. Activists started teaching home economics in schools across the US. -
Martha Rensselaer
Martha was president of AAFCS and a professor at Cornell. -
Smith Lever Act of 1914
This act, signed by Woodrow Wilson, created a cooperative extension service associated with each land grant institution. This was designed as a partnership of the USDA and land grant universities, and expanded the Morrill Act. -
Smith Hughes Act of 1917
Also known as National Vocational Education Act. Smith Hughes Act promotes agriculture, homemaking, and trades education. -
Lulu Graves
Graves and Lenna Cooper founded the American Dietetic Association, ADA. She was a very accomplished author. She received the ADA's Majorie Hulsizer Copher Award, she made very remarkable achievements in her lifetime for Nutrition and Dietetics. -
Clara Belle Drisdale Williams
Williams was the first African American to graduate from New Mexico State University. She was an educator and also taught black students and their parents to educate them in these times when they had less or unequal access to education. She lived to be 108. -
Vocational Education Acts of 1963
This act authorized funds for establishing vocational education activities at the federal, local, and state levels. It also offered and expanded new programs which brought job training. -
Vocational Amendment of 1968
This amendment provided grants for building vocational education school facilities and helping people. Programs of research and training are supported in curriculum development and personnel training. -
Vocational Amendment of 1973
This act helped to extend and revise the grants to states for vocational rehabilitation services. It was used for severely handicapped individuals. -
Vocational Amendment of 1976
This bill helped to revise and extend the Vocational Education Act of 1963. Also it helped amend the Higher Education Act of 1965. -
Carl Perkins Act of 2006
This act sources federal funding to states and grants to improve the career and technical education programs nationwide. This helps developing academic, career, and technical skills.