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- This was created to help federal land grant universities in the teaching of mechanical and agricultural techniques.
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These are used to teach higher education of agriculture and home education.
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The first land grant university in Arkansas was founded, and is now known as the university of Arkansas.
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The 2nd land grant in Arkansas, Arkansas Pine Bluff was founded
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Ellen Swallow Richards was the first women admitted to MIT and completed her bachelors degree.
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Caroline Hunt was named the first Home economics professor at Wisconsin, but due to the controversial topics of the time only had a 5 year tenure there.
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Atwater started studying protein intake on what is believed to be the first known studies of sports nutrition.
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Consumer economics was born, otherwise known as the start of family and consumer sciences.
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Ellen Swallow Richards founded this, becoming the founder of what is now family and consumer sciences.
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Martha rensaeler started a program for rural women who were trained in everyday tasks, eventually getting their numbers into the 20,000s.
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The smith- lever act of 1914 started a federal law that gave extensive services to land grant universities, which helped inform people on the current state of home economics, among other topics.
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In 1917, a group of women found the Academy of Nutrition and dietetics, which since has overseen the studies of food and gives out recommendations on different topics as more studies are done.
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The Smith Hughes act of 1917 started a program to promote precollege studies of agricultural and industrial trade to rural Americans
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The Vocational Education Act of 1963 provided grants to states to maintain, improve, and develop vocational-technical education programs.
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The vocational education amendments shifted the focus from the jobs to the people of the previous act. There is now a 5 year program that is plan that must be submitted.
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In the start of the 1970’s, modern sports nutrition was started, with an emphasis on distance runners and cyclists. This is where the start of modern sports nutrition comes from.
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The vocational amendment of 1973 eliminated any discrimination based on disabilities.
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The vocational amendment of 1976 required states to put in place programs to eliminate gender bias
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In 1980, Sports nutrition was officially recognized as a field, and more widescale studies were conducted.
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The Carl D Perkins act was started in 1984, and was used to increase the quality of technical education in the United states.
