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Catherine Beecher
Catharine Beecher played a role in the domestic science movement by writing her "Treatise on Domestic Economy" this was the first book recognized by the Department of Education. She was known for opinion about education for women. -
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1909
Family and Consumer sciences formerly known as home economics gave birth to consumer education in 1909 with the founding of the American Home Economics Association. The name was changed later in 1994 to Home Economics. -
Morrill Act of 1862
After the First Morrill Act is passed it provided federal lands to the states to be sold to support schools who had programs with agriculture and mechanical arts. -
Ellen Richards and MIT
Ellen Richards was named a special student by the school committe and was allowed in but watched closely. At this time she was the first woman to be admitted to the School while she studied chemistry. -
Ellen Richards
Ellen Richards is the fist woman to receive a Bachelor of Science at MIT. -
Carolyn Hunt
Carolyn Hunt obtained her bachelor's degree in 1888 in chemistry. She participated in two different studies of imigration and ethnic populations in Chicago. . -
Land Grant University
an institution of higher education like a college or school in the United States made by a state to get the benefits of the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890. The colleges in Arkansas who are a part of the Land Grant Universities are University of Arkansas and University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. -
Benjamin Thompson
Benjamin Thompson was the first to label nutrition as a science in the late 1800's. He invented the first range with temperature controls. In 1893 the Rumford kitchen at the Chicago World's fair was named after Rumford. -
School lunch program
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Carl Perkins Act
The Carl Perkins act was made to increase the type of technical education and individual gets while in the United States and was put in place to help the Americal economy. -
Lake Placid Conference
The FCS was named home economics and made a new field of study after much debate. -
W.O. Atwater
Atwater obtained his PhD in chemistry at Yale University. He wrote the nutrition bulletins at Richard's request. Atwater is considered to be the "Father of Nutrition". -
Family and Consumer Sciences defined
Family and Consumer Sciences took knowledge and applied it to help women and families make their lives better. -
Martha Rensselaer
Martha Rensselaer was a professor at Cornell University she attended Lake Placid Conference in 1899. She was the president of AAFCS. -
Smith Lever act of 1914
The Smith-Lever Act created a national Cooperative Extension Service that expanded to different programs through land-grant universities to educate rural American students about changes in agricultural practices and technology. -
Vocational Education Act of 1963
The Vocational Education Act of 1963 was put in place by Congress to allow new and broadened vocational education programs. This would bring job training to the industrial America and allow the country to grow economically and socially. -
Vocational Education Act of 1968
The vocational Education Act of 1968 was ammended to allow the employment of handicapped individuals. It would make changes to allow individuals to be provided vocational evaluation and work adjustment services to people who are disadvantaged by reasons of age, level of vocational attainment, ethnic or other factors. -
Smith- Hughes Act
Once the Smith-Hughes Act is passed it allowed federal support for vocational education. -
Vocational act of 1973
The vocational act of 1973 supported and protected individuals with disabilities -
Vocational amendment of 1976
The vocational amendment of 1976 was changed to allow financial help with devoloping schools and help them to function. -
Name change to Home economics
In 1994 the name of FCS was changed to Home economics
