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Justin Smith Morrill/ Morrill Act of 1862
This act was the reason for donating Public Lands to the states and territories which provided education in agriculture. -
Land Grant University
LGU is an institution of higher education in the United States chosen by a state to get the benefits of the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890. This Act is focused on the teaching of agriculture, science, military science and engineering. -
The Land Grant Universities in AR
The Land Grant Universities in AR are
University of Arkansas, and
University of Arkansas Pine Bluff -
Hatch Act
The Hatch Act provided 15,000 dollars to state established agricultural experiment stations per year after it passed. -
Rumford Kitchen
The World Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the Rumford Kitchen of "science of nutrition" -
School Lunch Program
First nutritional lunch school program in Boston by Ellen Richards -
Lake Placid Confrence
The first Lake Placid conference that began the creation of the American Home Economics Association -
Ellen Richards Death
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Smith Lever Act of 1914
This act is associated with the Land Grant Universities, It helped people learn about the current developments in agriculture and home economics, etc. This really helped out the farmers by teaching them home techniques. -
Smith Hughes Act of 1917
This act was a National Vocational Education Act. It was an act of the United States Congress that promoted vocational education in "agriculture, trades and industry, and homemaking", and gave federal funds for this purpose. -
Boys take Home Economics
AHEA sets goals to create and maintain instruction in the department of home management for elementary and high school girls and home economics instruction for boys. -
Parenting classes
Parenting classes start to become popular and pushed on. -
Agnes Faye Morgan
Agnes Faye Morgan, chair of Department of Home Economics at University of California Berkeley, is appointed to serve on President Roosevelt First Nutritional Congress. -
Accreditation
Accreditation of undergraduate programs in home economics starts. -
Vocational Education Act
This act gave grants to states to help and develop vocational-technical education programs. The funds were set aside for occupations in demand. -
Vocational Amendment
This amendment is basically an extension of the 1963 amendments, but the main point of it has changed from occupations to people. -
Vocational Amendment
This act is, The Rehabilitation Act, which provides protections and services for people with disabilities. It was signed by Richard Nixon in 1973. -
Vocational Amendment
This is a law that was passed in 1976 basically saying that whenever you are done with college it is expected that you find a job, the exact law states,
"Federal grants to States to assist them to maintain, extend, and improve existing programs of vocational education, to develop new programs of vocational
education"
It also talks about if you are in youth and need a job to pursue your academic career. -
Carl Perkins Vocational Act
Its purpose is to increase the quality of technical education in the United States. -
Carl Perkins Act
This act strives to help and improve the quality of technical education within the United States in order to help the economy like the first one but this is a reauthorized act. -
Carl Perkins Act
The new Act provides an increased focus on the academic achievement of career and technical education students, strengthen the connections between secondary and post-secondary education, and improve state and local accountability
