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American Chemist and founder of the Home Economics movement
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This act provided grants of land to states to finance colleges that were specializing in "agriculture and mechanic arts"
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One of the two land-grant universities in Arkansas, the first one. -
The second land-grant university in Arkansas.
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Known as the "father of Nutrition"
He, with the help of E.B. Rose, created the bomb calorimeter -
Eleven people gathered at a conference in Lake Placid, which they then adored the name "home economics" for this new field of interest.
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First professor of home economics at University of Wisconsin
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She and Flora Rose ran the first full fledge department of Home Economics -
Established national cooperative extension services with outreach programs through land-grant universities to teach about agriculture.
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The Smith-Hughes Act recognized vocational agriculture, home economics, and the trades and industries as the fields of study that could be supported with Smith-Hughes funds.
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Founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1917, by a visionary group of women dedicated to helping the government conserve food and improve the public's health and nutrition during World War I.
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the Betty Lamp became the American Home Economics Associations symbol. Meaning "to make better." -
High school cocurricular organization in which community leadership was developed -
Provided grants to states to maintain, improve, and develop vocational-technical education programs
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Continues the work of the Vocational Amendment of 1963, but switches the focus from occupations to people
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Concluded that education should be redirected with equal emphasis on education for living and education for making a living.
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Required states receiving federal funding for vocational education to develop and carry out activities and programs
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Authorizes federal funds to support vocational education programs -
Future Homemakers of America was Renamed to better suit the purposes.