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Ellen Swallow Richards
Ellen Swallow Richards is known as the founder of home economics. She was the most prominent female American chemist of the 19th century. She was also the first woman to be admitted to the Massachusetts Institute of technology. (1842-1911) -
CF Langworthy (1865-1932)
He is the Co-editor of the Journal of Home Economics. He conducted the metabolic test. He studied the chemical composition of food. -
W.O. Atwater 1855-1907'
He invented the Bomb Calorimeter. He wrote nutrition bulletins at Richard's request. He is considered to be the "Father of Nutrition." -
Justin Smith Morrill Act of 1862
Passed on July 2, 1862, this act made it possible for new western states to establish colleges for their citizens. The new land-grant institutions, which emphasized agriculture and mechanic arts, opened opportunities to thousands of farmers and working people previously excluded from higher education. -
Land Grant University 1862
Land-grant institutions are colleges and universities designated to receive benefits of the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890. These acts promoted establishment of institutions of higher learning focused on the agricultural and mechanical arts, without excluding other scientific and classical studies. -
Martha Rensselaer
She was a Cornell University Professor and a founding co- director of the college of Home Economics. Attended Lake Placid Conference of 1899. She Developed Cooperative Extension Service Programs at Cornell University. She was also the President of AAFCS -
Clara Belle Drisdane Williams
She was the first African American to graduate New Mexico state University. She Became a teacher to black students by day- taught their parents by night in areas of home economics. She was awarded honorary doctorate degree from New Mexico State University who apologized for treatment as a student in 1980. -
Rumford Kirchen 1894
Ellen Swallow Richards created the Rumford Kitchen. Though primitive cooking ranges had been around for much of the eighteenth century. ... A typical Rumford arrangement consisted of a brick range, enclosing and separating a series of fires, above each of which a pot or stew-pan fitted into a circular, iron-rimmed opening. -
Education beyond 8th grade
State backed support grows for practical education beyond 8th grade. Secondary education expands to include vocational education. -
Atwater’s studies of exercise metabolism
Atwater's familiarity with German techniques for measuring respiration and metabolism helped him to conduct studies on food analysis, dietary evaluations, energy requirements for work, digestibility of foods, and economics of food production. He helped to persuade the United States Government to fund studies of human nutrition. -
Smith Lever Act of 1914
Created the Cooperate Extension Service including FACS. This act extended outreach programs through land- grant universities to educate rural Americans about advances in agricultural practices and technology. -
Smith- Hughes Act, 1917
Smith-Hughes Act, formally National Vocational Education Act, U.S. legislation, adopted in 1917, that provided federal aid to the states for the purpose of promoting precollegiate vocational education in agricultural and industrial trades and in home economics. -
Home Economics instruction for boys
AHEA sets goals to establish and maintain instruction in elements of home management for elementary and high school girls and appropriate homes economics instruction for boys. -
Food Corporations
Food corporation begin employing home economists to create recipes and nutritional information for other home economists in the classrooms -
Vocational Education 1963
The Vocational Education Act of 1963 provided grants to states to maintain, improve, and develop vocational-technical education programs. The funds were earmarked for occupations in demand. -
Vocational Amendment
The Vocational Amendments in 1968 addressed the nation's social and economic problems and continued funding for students who were at risk or with disabilities. ... The STWOA supplied funding to states to connect education and careers for all students. States could apply for five-year grants. -
Vocational Amendment of 1876
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. -
Carol Perkins Act 1984
Originally passed as the Vocational Education Act of 1963, renamed the Carl D. ... The Perkins Act provides federal funds to states so they can facilitate connections between secondary and postsecondary education and employers—aligning learning programs to best serve the needs of the local economy. -
Name Change
In June 1994, American Home Economics Association (AHEA) voted to change the name of the profession to Family and Consumer Science (FACS). The association became the American Association of Family and Consumer Science (AAFCS). UCA was able to change the name in August 1994. -
Land Grant Universities in Arkansas
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, Pine Bluff