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Catharine Beecher
A member of a prominent activist and religious family, Catharine Esther Beecher was a nineteenth century teacher and writer who promoted equal access to education for women. She was an advocate for women to be mothers and teachers. She believed that women were uniquely suited for the moral and intellectual development of children -
Justin Smith Morrill/Morrill Act of 1862
It allowed each state to sell up to 30,000 acres of land and use the funds to establish colleges, hence the name “land grant” universities. -
Justin Smith Morrill
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Land Grant Universities in AR
University of Arkansas, and University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. -
W.O Atwater
"Considered to be the father of nutrition". -
Ellen Swallow
Founder of the home economics movement in the United States. The first woman admitted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. -
Caroline Hunt
She received a degree in Chemistry from Northwestern in 1888. She thought that the home economics should provide a general education. -
Ellen Swallow
One of America's first female professional chemists and the first woman to be accepted by a scientific school. -
Lake Placid Conference
The historical beginning of family and consumer science dates back to 1899 when 11 people gathered in New York for a conference at Lake Placid. At this conference, the name "home economics" was adopted for this new field. -
Martha 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 in Ithaca, New York. -
Smith Lever Act of 1914
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
Was an act of the United States Congress that promoted vocational education in "agriculture, trades and industry, and homemaking," and provided federal funds for this purpose. -
Lulu Grace Graves
Was an American dietitian, who was, from 1917 to 1920, the first president of the American Dietetic Association. -
Betty Lamp
In 1926, the American Home Economics Association adopted the Betty Lamp as a symbol for the association. -
Vocational Education Act of 1963
The Vocational Education Act of 1963 provided grants to states to maintain, improve, and develop vocational-technical education programs. -
Vocational Amendment of 1976
The 1976 Amendments to the Vocational Equity Act of 1963, required states receiving federal funding for vocational education to develop and carry out activities and programs to eliminate gender bias, stereotyping, and discrimination in vocational education. -
Carl Perkins Act
An act to amend the Vocational Education Act of 1963 to strengthen and expand the economic base of the Nation, develop human resources. -
Dine In
Since 2014, nearly half a million people have committed to "Dining In" on Family & Consumer Sciences Dec 3rd. -
Celebrate FCS Day
FCS is the field of study focused on the science and art of living and working well in our complex world. We celebrate on December 3rd to recognize our profession's founder, Ellen S. Richards, first woman to graduate of MIT, whose birthday was December 3rd. -
Family and Consumer Sciences
Family & Consumer Sciences courses allow students to plan for possible careers, develop practical skills for employment, understand the importance of nutrition, and learn about appropriate childcare practices, financial literacy, resource management, parenting, and the art of positive communication.
