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Wrote the first FACS textbook recognized by the Department of Education - "A Treatise on Domestic Economy" -
Ellen paved the way for women and for the FCS profession. She was the first woman to graduate from MIT and built the foundation for Family and Consumer Science
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Land-grant universities; Extend educational opportunities that promoted agricultural, industrial, and domestic economy.
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University of Arkansas - Fayetteville and University of Arkansas - Pine Bluff -
An institution that has been designated by its state legislature to receive the Morrill Acts benefits -
Invented the first range with temperature controls; Rumford Kitchen named after him -
Invented Bomb Calorimeter; wrote nutrition bulletins; "Father of Nutrition"; studied exercise metabolism -
This act established Cooperative Extension Service; it required land-grant colleges to establish Agricultural Experiment Station
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The first act setting vocational education apart from regular high school curriculum and established federal funding to support; now called Career and Technical Education
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First African American to graduate from New Mexico State University; Teacher to Black students during the day and their parents at night; Honorary Doctorate from NMSU; 3 sons are physicians -
Created so that secondary schools could give students and adults the opportunity to obtain a job that requires less than a Bachelors degree; replaced Smith-Hughes Act; Broadened the spectrum of FCS -
first vocational legislation to address postsecondary students; expanded the role of vocational education and the funding was increased -
The Rehabilitation Act; prohibits discrimination based on disabilities in federally funded programs, programs receiving federal financial assistance, and in federal employment -
requires states receiving federal funding for vocational education to create and plan activities to eliminate gender bias, stereotyping, and discrimination in the vocational profession/education -
Provided funds and grants to CTE programs; Perkins Federal Loan Program aided undergraduate and graduate students with exceptional financial need; 4 different versions throughout time
