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Ellen Richards is a founder of AAFCS. She lunched the new field. She began the school lunch program in 1894. Ellen was a powerful leader.She tested products for nutrituous lunches at the 1894 Chicago World's Fair (Rumford Kitchen)
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W.O atwater invented the bomb calorimeter. He wrote nutriten bulltions for Richards' paper. He also created the metabolic chart.
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President Lincon signed it into law. This law was donating public lands to colleges. Each state gets 30,000 acrs of ferderal land for each member in congress.
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A land grant university is benefit of the morrill act of 1862. They get to use the land.
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Rensselaer was a Cornell University professor. She attended Lack Placid Conference in 1899. Rensselaer also developed the cooperative extension serviece. She was also the President of AAFCS.
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University of Arkansas
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Hunt conducted two important studies of immigrant and ethnic populations in Chicago.
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Eleven leaders gatherd in Lake Placid, NY. This is where the name Home Economics was adopted.
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This is when the name changed from Amercain Home Economics Assoication to AAFCS.
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A federal law that establised the systems of cooperative extension services, connected to te land-grant univesities to inform people about the developments of the agriculture,home and econimics.
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This act provided federal aid to states for the purpose of promoting vocational education in agricultural trades and in home economics for secondary education.
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This act provided grants to states to improve and develop vocational education.
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Extenstion of the Vocational Education Act of 1963. This act provides federal funs for vocational edcation programs.
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Title IX, this amendment prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in education programs.
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This amendment requires states to develop and carry out programs to eliminate gender bias, discrimination and steryotyping in vocational education.
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Authorized by the federal government, aims to increase the quality of technical education in the U.S.
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This is the Applied Technology Act of 1990. The academic measures and contextual learning became major points to look at. More action was taken to help economically-disadvantaged students.
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The AHEA voted to change their name to AAFCS.
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In Aug 1994, UCA changed the name from AHEA to AAFCS
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The act is to develop the academic, career and technical skills of secondary education students and postsecondary education students who are in a career and technical education program.