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C.Rumford
is best known for his attacks on the caloric theory of heat. -
C. Beecher
In 1823, Beecher and her sister Mary founded the Hartford Female Seminary. In most female schools of the era, students learned primarily fine arts and languages, but Beecher offered a full range of subjects. An early pioneer of physical education for girls, Beecher introduced calisthenics to improve women’s health and in defiance of prevailing notions of women’s fragility. -
Morrill Act of 1862
The grant was originally set up to establish institutions is each state that would educate people in agriculture, home economics, mechanical arts, and other professions that were practical at the time. -
Land Grant University
A land-grant college or university is an institution that has been designated by its state legislature or Congress to receive the benefits of the Morrill Acts of 1862, 1890, and 1994. The original mission of these institutions, as set forth in the first Morrill Act, was to teach agriculture, military tactics, and the mechanic arts as well as classical studies so members of the working classes could obtain a liberal, practical education. (University of Arkansas, & UAPB) -
M. Welch
Taught home economics to women at Iowa State College, which is believed to be the first effort in the U.S. to teach home economics to college students. -
W. Atwater
nutrition studies were quite new in the United States, and most of them were being done by Atwater himself. -
Name Adopted
in 1899, eleven individuals gathered in New York for a conference at Lake Placid where the name "Home Economics" was adopted -
Martha Rensselaer
President of AAFCS and established the Cooperative Extension Service Programs at Cornell in 1900 -
AHEA
The first meeting of the American Home Economic Associated and Ellen H. Richards founded AHEA. -
Mary Creswell
In 1913, became the first woman employed by the Federal Extension Office in Washington. She first suggested the name “home demonstration” for the Cooperative Extension Service program that carried home and nutrition information to rural women and girls. -
Smith-Lever Act
The Smith-Lever 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. -
Smith Hughes Act
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. -
Betty Lamp
The American Home Economics Association adopted the "Betty Lamp" as the symbol. The German derivative "besser" means to make better. The lamp was symbolic to provide light for all household industries. -
Asia Todd
Developed the Master’s Degree program in Home Economics Education: 28 students completed the Master’s between 1940-53 including seven that became college professors, four completed the doctorate, two were assistant state supervisors of home economics, most served as supervising teachers for the University of Georgia. -
Vocational Education Act
THE VOCATIONAL EDUCATION ACT OF 1963 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. THE ACT IS COMPREHENSIVE. IT IS AVAILABLE TO AND CONCERNED ABOUT UNEMPLOYED AND EMPLOYED WORKERS OF ALL AGES AT ALL LEVELS FOR ALL FIELDS IN BOTH RURAL AND URBAN AREAS. -
Vocational Amendment
The Vocational Education Amendments of 1968 extend the work of the 1963 amendments, but the emphasis has changed from occupations to people. National and state advisory councils are required. In addition each state must submit a plan consisting of administrative policies and procedures and an annual and 5-year program plan -
Vocational Amendment 73
To amend the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 to extend certain programs established in such Act, to establish a community service employment program for handicapped individuals, and to provide comprehensive services for independent living for handicapped individuals, to amend the Developmental Disabilities Services and Facilities Construction Act to revise and extend the programs under that Act, and for other purposes. -
Vocational Amendment 76
1976, when a series of educational amendments substantially changed laws and standards regarding public education in the United States. The amendments, signed into law by President Gerald Ford, sought not only to improve the standards of vocational education but also to expand offerings to disadvantaged students and eliminate sex bias and stereotyping in vocational education. -
AHEA to FACS
AHEA voted to change the name of profession to Family and Consumer Sciences. -
Carl Perkins Act
The President signed the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act of 2006 into law on August 12, 2006. The new Act will provide an increased focus on the academic achievement of career and technical education students, strengthen the connections between secondary and postsecondary education, and improve state and local accountability.
