History of FACS

  • Catharine Beecher

    She wrote the Treatise on Domestic Economy
  • Justin Smith Morrill

    The Morrill act passed providing federal lands to the states to be sold to support college of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts
  • Justin Smith Morrill/ Morrill Act of 1862

    This was signed by Abraha Lincoln which established federal funding for higher education in every state in the United States.
  • Land Grant University

    An institution in higher education to receive benefits of the Morrill Act of 1862 and 1880.
  • What are the land grant universities in AR?

    University of Arkansas
  • What are the land grant universities in AR?

    University of Arkansas Pine Bluff
  • Second Morrill Act

    provided more funding for black college students
  • Ellen Richards

    The first school lunch program was implemented in Boston.
    School lunch was sold for a penny
  • Smith Lever Act of 1914

    This established a system of cooperative extension in services connected to land grant universities in order to inform people about current developments in agriculture and home economics.
  • Smith Hughes Act of 1917

    promoted vocation education in agriculture, trades, industry, and homemaking and also provided federal funds for it
  • FCCLA founded

    The organization, FCCLA was founded
  • Vocational Education Acts of 1963

    expanded the economic base of the nation: developed human resources, reduce structural unemployment, and increased productivity.
  • Name change

    Name changed from Home Economics to Family and Consumer Sciences