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Catherine Beecher
Catherine Beecher was a 19th Century teacher that promoted equal educational access to women. Beecher wrote the first recognized FACS textbook "A Treatise on Domestic Economy" in 1841. Throughout Beecher's life, she went on to write 33 more textbooks. -
Ellen Richards
Ellen Richards was a chemist that loved home economics. Richards founded home economics and in 1882 she published The Chemistry of Cooking and Cleaning: A Manual for Housekeepers. Richards was a pragmatic feminist, as well as a founding ecofeminist, who believed that women's work within the home was a vital aspect of the economy -
Wilbur Olin Atwater
Atwater earned his PhD in chemistry in 1869. He was named the "Father of Nutrition" because of interest and dedication to the nutritional sciences. He also invented the Bomb Calorimeter in 1902. -
Booker Washington
Booker T. Washington was best known for his significance in vocational study. His belief was that the way to equality was through vocational education and economic success. The Booker T. Vocational School was the first vocational school for the black population of St. Louis from its inception as a part of the St. Louis Public Schools policy of segregation. -
Book of Household Management
Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management is a guide on how to manage ones household effectively. The book explains many ways to be useful and helpful around the house. This book was published in 1861 and was a best seller at the time. -
Morrill Act
Passed on July 2, 1862, this act made it possible for states to establish public colleges funded by the development or sale of associated federal land grants. Over 10 million acres provided by these grants were expropriated from tribal lands of Native communities. This act was instated to benefit that agricultural arts. -
Land Grant Universities
Land Grant Universities are institutions that congress has instated the Morrill Act. 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. There are now hundreds of Land Grant Universities -
Carolyn Hunt
Hunt received her degree in chemistry from Northwestern in 1888 and worked alongside W.O. Atwater. She studied and collected dietary, ethnic, economic, and social information to be published. Hunt also attended several Lake Placid conferences. -
Land Grant Universities in Arkansas
The Arkansas General Assembly established the university in Fayetteville in 1871 as the Arkansas Industrial University. Under the Morrill Act of 1862, it became the state land-grant institution and first state-assisted college in Arkansas. There is now two, as they have added the University of Arkansas in Pine Bluff. -
The Rumford Kitchen
Ellen Swallow Richards created scientifically prepared food for the Chicago World's Fair. These foods were sold and included the nutritional information and value for the product. -
Annie Dewey
Dewey helped found the Lake Placid Club with her husband in 1895. They eventually created and combined two branches. . -
Lake Placid Conference
Ellen Swallow Richards created this conference to get people information on the FCS education. This conference became the foundation of the home economics movement. This conference continued from 1899 to1908. -
Education Evolution
Education past eighth grade became backed by the states. -
The 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. This act was made to accommodate agricultural growth. This act was authored by Senator Hoke of Georgia. -
The Smith Hughes Act
The Smith-Hughes Act provides federal aid to the states for the purpose of promoting precollegiate vocational education in agricultural and industrial trades and in home economics. -
Agnes Faye Morgan
Dr. Morgan came to the University of California and believed that the best professional opportunity for a woman trained in chemistry lay in the application of that training to the development of the science of nutrition in a home economics department, she became, in 1916, joint chairman with Mary Patterson of the newly established Department of Home Economics in the College of Letters and Science. In 1918, this department was divided into Household Science, with Agnes Fay Morgan as chairman. -
Ewha Woman's University in Seoul
The field began in schools taught by Western missionaries in the late 19th century. The first college-level department of family science was established at Ewha Womans University in Seoul in 1929. -
Vocational Education Act
The Vocational Education Act provided grants to states to maintain, improve, and develop vocational-technical education programs. This act also promoted equal opportunities for women and girls. This act was a great step towards allocating for women in education. -
Vocational Amendment 1968
The Vocational Education Amendments of 1968, authorized funds to aid states and localities in establishing vocational education programs in local high schools. This amendment advocated for people from different backgrounds and genders to provide equal opportunities. This act encouraged people to look into the person more than their occupation. -
Vocational Amendment 1976
This act required states receiving federal funding for vocational education to develop and carry out activities and programs to eliminate gender bias, stereotyping, and discrimination in vocational education. This allowed many students a new opportunity to learn things. This act also eliminated many issues that previously existed in the systems. -
Carl Perkins Act
This act authorizes federal funds to support education programs. One of the goals for the Perkins Act is to improve the access of either those who have been underserved in the past or those who have greater-than-average educational needs. Under the act, "special populations" include those who have a disability, are disadvantaged, or have limited English proficiency. -
AHEA Diversity Evolution
AHEA launched Project 200 enhancing programs to meet diversity needs -
The FCS Body of Knowledge
The FCS body of knowledge was invented in 2000 which includes the human eco-system and life course development. -
100 Year Celebration
The 100 year celebration of AAFCS