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  act donating public lands to the several states and territories which may provide colleges
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  President Abraham Lincoln signed the first land grant on July 2nd
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  designated as a land grant university
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  designated as a land grant university
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  designated as a land grant university in 1871
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  designated as a land grant university
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  American Home Economic Association was founded
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  US federal law that established a system of cooperative extension services, connected to the land grant universities in order to inform people about current developments in agriculture, home economics, public policy, etc.
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  US Congress promoted vocational education in "agriculture, trades and industry, and homemaking" and provided federal funds for that.
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  AHEA adopted the Betty Lamp as symbol. The lamp's name is german for "to make better".
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  President Calvin Coolidge approved; home economic education funds were allotted on the basis of rural population rather than urban population
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  President Harry S. Truman authorized appropriation of 29 million dollars annually
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  provided grants to states to maintain, improve and develop vocational-technical programs
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  authorized the appropriation of millions of dollars for vocational education in attempt to find solutions to the nation's social and economic problems
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  continued support of consumer and homemaking education and placed special emphasis on the changing of roles of men and women as workers and homemakers.
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  focused on social and economic issues-- this act was to improve the effectiveness of consumer and homemaking education and reduce the limiting effects of sex-role stereotyping on occupations, job skills, levels of competency, and careers
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  authorized the largest amount of funds; assist schools in teaching for a technologically advanced society
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  organization changed name to the American Association of Family and Consumer Science
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  reauthorized; increased federal funding to 1.3 billion; changed name of vocational education to career and technical education