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Catharine Beecher contributes to the domestic science movement by writing her Treatise on Domestic Economy
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providing federal lands to the states to be sold to support colleges of agriculture and mechanical arts
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begins it domestic economy curriculum
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MIT grants Ellen Richards a Bachelor of Science, the first to a woman. Vassar awards her a Master’s degree based on her scientific thesis. She is the first woman to earn an advance science degree
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Ellen Richards publishes The Chemistry of Cooking and Cleaning: A Manual for Housekeepers
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Domestic Science courses introduced into the public school system in Boston
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The Hatch Act is passed, providing $15,000 a year for state established agricultural experiment stations
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The Second Morrill Act passed, providing further funding for black student colleges
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The World Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the Rumford Kitchen of “science of nutrition”
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First nutritional lunch school program in Boston by Ellen Richards
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The first Lake Placid conference that began the creation of the American Home Economics Association.
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State backed support grows for practical education beyond the 8th grade. Secondary education expands to include vocational education
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The first girl’s Tomato club (4-H) organized by Marie Cromer a teacher, through Agricultural Extension
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The American Home Economics Association is established
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Two white women become home demonstration agents in South Caronlina
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The Smith-Lever Act is passed, specifying the creation of the Agriculture Extension Service to provide farm women with education in home economics and men with education in agriculture
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The Smith-Hughes Act is passed, establishing federal support for vocational education
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As part of the war effort, home economists teach the nation the rules of substitution to increase the consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables, which could not be shipped abroad to soldiers during WWI.
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AHEA sets goals to establish and maintain instruction in elements of home management for elementary and high school girls and appropriate home economics instruction for boys.
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The Home Economic section is added to the American Association of Land-Grant Colleges
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Childcare recognized as a key element in the home economics curriculum
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Food corporations begin employing home economists to create recipes and nutritional information for other home economists in the classroom
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Home Economists in the state become accepted by the public as experts in human nutrition
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Agnes Faye Morgan, chair of the Department of Home Economics at U of California, Berkeley, is appointed to serve on President Roosevelt’s First Nutrition Congress
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The USDA Bureau of Home Economics becomes the Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics
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Feminists criticize scientific experts in home economics for fostering restrictive roles for women
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Accreditation of undergraduate programs in home economic begins
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Racial tension acknowledged within the organization, Florence Low sets out to eliminate
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Vocational Education Act- gainful employment outside of the home
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Vocation Education Act amended to include handicapped and disadvantaged students
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The 11th Lake Placid Conference is held to develop consensus among members
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Home Economists begin to gear its work seriously towards males- Vocational Ed Act
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AHEA launched Project 2000- enhancing programs to meet diversity needs
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Cornell University sponsors a conference entitled “Rethinking Women & Home Economics in the 20th Century”
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Scottsdale meeting recommends name change
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Name changes from Home Economics to Family and Consumer Sciences
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Association membership begins to decrees and FCS programs struggle to stay in public schools
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100 year celebrations held nationally for the organization of AAFCA (American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences)
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First Lake Placid Summit held at BYU-Idaho to commemorate and generate positive professional networks in the Southeast Idaho area
