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The first FACS text book recognized by the Department of Education.
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"It is an act donating public lands to the several states and territories which may provide Colleges for the Benefit of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts." The Morrill Act provided each state with 30,000 acres of Federal land for each member.
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A land-grant college or university is an institution that has been designated by its state legislature or Congress to receive the benefits of the Morrill Acts of 1862, 1890, and 1994.
The first land-grant institution actually created under the Act was Kansas State University, which was established on February 16, 1863, and opened on September 2, 1863. -
The Arkansas General Assembly established the university in Fayetteville in 1871 as the Arkansas Industrial University, and under the Morrill Act of 1862, it became the state land-grant institution and first state-assisted college in Arkansas. On opening day, January 22, 1872, there were four teachers and eight students.
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It was then that he teamed with Wesleyan Professor of Physics, Edward Bennett Rosa, class of 1886, and Professor of Chemistry Francis G. Benedict, to develop the Atwater-Rosa Respiration Calorimeter
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In 1873, the university established a campus in Pine Bluff, which was named Branch Normal College and later designated as a land-grant institution under the second Morrill Act of 1890.
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At the request of the Massachusetts State Board of Health, Richards and her assistants performed a water-quality survey of Massachusetts’ inland water bodies, many of which were already polluted with industrial waste and municipal sewage. According to the Chemical Heritage Foundation, “The scale of the survey was unprecedented: it led to the first state water-quality standards in the nation and the first modern municipal sewage treatment plant, in Lowell, Massachusetts.”
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Sold scientifically prepared and nutritious lunches at the 1894 Chicago World’s Fair.
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“Home Economics” was adopted as the name for the new field of study.
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Developed Cooperative Extension Service Programs at Cornell University, N.Y. , 1900
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Ellen Richards founded American Home Economics Association in 1909. 10th annual Lake Placid conference was held. American Home Economics Association was created and the first Journal of Home Economics was published
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This act created the Cooperative Extension Service including FACS.
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It is an act established FACS as part of Vocational (CTE) Education.
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58 people saw the need for persons educated in the science of nutrition and trained in the art of feeding people.
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This act provided grants to states to maintain, improve, and develop vocational-technical education programs.
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This amendment 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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This amendment prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in programs conducted by federal agencies, in programs receiving federal financial assistance, in federal employment and in the employment practices of federal contractors.
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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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The purpose of Perkins is to provide individuals with the academic and technical skills needed to succeed in a knowledge- and skills-based economy.
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American Home Economics Association (AHEA) voted to change the name of the profession to Family and Consumer Sciences (FACS).
