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● Justin Smith Morrill/Morrill Act of 1862
The Morrill Act of 1862 provided grants of land to states to finance the establishment of colleges specializing in “agriculture and the mechanic arts.” Link text -
Land Grant University
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Rumford Kitchen & Chicago World’s Fair, 1894
The intention of the exhibit was to illustrate the present state of knowledge in regard to the composition of materials for human food, the means of making these materials most available for nutrition, and the quantity of each necessary for a working ration.
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Ellen H. Richards
Early 1900s Richards found the American Home Economics Association envisioned this professional organization as one that would emphasize cultural, ethical, and social ideals, and the scientific management of household work.
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W.O. Atwater
Atwater stated that food may be defined as material which, when taken into the body, serves to either form tissue or yield energy, or both. This definition includes all the ordinary food materials, since they both build tissue and yield energy.
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Martha Rensselaer
Due to the success of female extension work, in l908 Cornell decided to offer full-time home economics courses.
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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.
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Smith Hughes Act of 1917
Smith Hughes Act, provided federal aid to the states for the purpose of promoting precollegiate vocational education in agricultural and industrial trades and in home economics.
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AND History & Founders
The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics is the world's largest organization of food and nutrition professionals 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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Vocational Education Acts of 1963
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Vocational Amendment of 1968
The Vocational Amendments in 1968 addressed the nation's social and economic problems and continued funding for students who were at risk or with disabilities.
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Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972
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Vocational Amendment of 1973
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Vocational Amendment of 1976
The 1976 Amendments to the Vocational Equity Act of 1963, 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.
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Land Grant Universitys in Arkansas
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FACS changes its name and emphisis
changed name to reflect these and other cultural and educational developments. Subsequently, the Future Homemakers of America student organization was renamed the Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA). Link text -
Caroline Hunt
In 2000 Ms. Hunt published “Primrose Past: The 1848 Journal of Young Lady Primrose,” a novel couched as the diary of a teenage girl in Victorian England striving to live up to the ideals of an age.
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Carl Perkins Act
The purpose of the Act is to develop more fully the academic, career, and technical skills of secondary and postsecondary students who elect to enroll in career and technical education programs.
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Cooperative Extension Service
We use the results of scientific research, much of it conducted at the University of Arkansas system colleges and our research stations, to help you improve your life and your community. We're basically a go-between between you and the scientists.
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FACS Brand
The AAFCS celebrates, embraces, and respects the value of every person. We denounce all expressions of hate, racism, injustice, and discrimination. Our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice is demonstrated through our work to improve the well-being and quality of life for individuals, families, and communities.
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