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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