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An American chemist known for his studies of human nutrition and metabolism.
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The Morrill Act of 1862 was also known as the Land Grant College Act. It changed higher education in America greatly. The grant was originally set up to establish institutions is each state that would educate people in agriculture, home economics, mechanical arts, and other professions that were practical at the time. The land-grant act was introduced by a congressman from Vermont named Justin Smith Morrill.
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Martha Van Rensselaer was a founding co-director of the College of Home Economics.
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The only full-time female at the University of Wisconsin, she wrote life of Ellen Swallow Richards.
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Taught home economics to women at Iowa State College, which is believed to be the first effort in the U.S. to teach home economics to college students.
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The University of Arkansas In Fayetteville is one of the two land grants in AR and was built 1871 and opened in 1872. Also the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff is a land grant.
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The application of the principles of chemistry to the science of cooking by Richards and Atwater.
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The conference for Home Economics
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Ellen was an industrial and safety engineer, environmental chemist, and university faculty member in the United States during the 19th century. Her pioneering work in sanitary engineering, and experimental research in domestic science, laid a foundation for the new science of home economics.
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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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The Smith Hughes National Vocational Education Act of 1917 promoted vocational education in "agriculture, trades and industry, and homemaking", and provided federal funds for this purpose.
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A land-grant university is an institution of higher education in the United States designated by a state to receive the benefits of the Morrill Acts of 1862. Every state has a land-grant university, The Univeristy of Arkansas is the land grant in our State.
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This act provided grants to states to maintain, improve, and develop vocational-technical education programs.
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Provided grants to states to maintain, improve, and develop vocational-technical education programs
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Provided new programs for vocational education provide part-time employment for the youth to receive earnings to continue vocational training.
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The Rehabilitation Act of 1973 is the federal law that authorizes the formula grant programs for vocational rehabilitation, supported employment, independent living, and client assistance.
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This amendment required states receiving federal funds 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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AHEA voted to change the name of profession to Family and Consumer Sciences.
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First authorized in 1984 to increase the quality of technical education within the U.S. in order to help the economy. Re-authorized by Donald Trump on July 26, 2018.
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A day to celebrate Family and Consumer Sciences. It is celebrated on Ellen Richard's birthday.
