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Catherine Beecher wrote, "A Treatise on Domestic Economy", which became the first Family and Consumer Science test book that was recognized by the Department of Education.
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This act was established to provide grants of land to states in order to finance higher education.
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These universities are United States institutes of higher education that were given federal land by the Morrill Act of 1862.
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Atwater received his PhD from Yale in 1869 for his studies on the chemical composition of corn.
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Richards managed to lobby for funding for the creation of a women's only laboratory at MIT.
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The University of Arkansas in Fayetteville becomes a land grant university.
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The University of Arkansas in Pine Bluff becomes a land grant university.
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W.O. Atwater studied the effects of fertilizers in farming and established the first agricultural experimental station in the United States while he was a professor of Chemistry at Wesleyan College.
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The first major school lunch program started in the year of 1894 in high schools due to Ellen Richards and Edward Atkinson.
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Named after Count Rumford and organized by Ellen Richards, the kitchen was used to demonstrate the making of scientifically prepared meals, which were then displayed with their nutrient information and cost.
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The first meeting of contemporaries in the field of home economics was held at the Lake Placid Club in 1899.
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She was appointed as the first professor of home economics at the University of Wisconsin.
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Van Rensselaer along with Flora Rose was invited to head the Department of Home Economics at Cornell University.
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This 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.
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This act provided federal aid to the states for the purpose of promoting precollegiate vocational education in agricultural and industrial trades and in home economics.
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After the efforts from Rose and Van Rensselaer Cornell University made the department of Home Economics independent from the agriculture school, creating a separate School of Home Economics.
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Canon, Rose, and Van Rensselaer co-wrote "A Manual of Home Making", a widely read text on home management.
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In 1915, she came to Cornell to assist Martha Van Rensselaer and Flora Rose with reading courses designed for New York State farm homemakers. She was also an extension instructor in home economics at Cornell. In 1928, she received her M.S. in Consumer Economics. She was appointed the first head of the Department of Economics of the Household and Household Management at Cornell.
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This was enacted by congress to offer new and expanded vocational education programs to bring job training into harmony with the industrial, economic, and social realities of today and the needs for tomorrow.
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This act is an extends vocational education services to people with disabilities.
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This amendment was the first civil rights legislation in the United States designed to protect individuals with disabilities from discrimination based on their disability status.
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Named after Carl D. Perkins, this act aims to increase the quality of technical education within the United States in order to help the economy.
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AHEA voted to change the name of the profession Home Economics to Family and Consumer Sciences.
