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A Treatise on Domestic Economy
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. It was the first FACS text book recognized by the Department of Education. -
Ellen Swallow
Once Ellen got into school she studied science and began learning as much as she could in that field. She would soon create the foundation of what FCS will come to be. -
Morrill Act
The Morrill Land-Grant Acts are United States statutes that allowed for the creation of land-grant colleges in U.S. states using the proceeds from sales of federally-owned land, often obtained from indigenous tribes through treaty, cession, or seizure. -
Land Grant University
An institution of higher education in the United States designated by a state to receive the benefits of the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890.
Signed by Abraham Lincoln, the first Morrill Act began to fund educational institutions by granting federally controlled land to the states for them to sell, to raise funds, to establish and endow "land-grant" colleges. -
The creation of the women's chemistry building
A place that was created by Ellen Swallow for women to study different sciences and conduct different experiments -
W.O Atwater
Was considered the father of nutrition and wrote nutrition bulletins. He also Invented the Calorimeter. He also went to study the exercise metabolism to make these inventions. -
Rumford Kitchen
The exhibit known as the Rumford Kitchen is the outgrowth of the work, in the application of the principles of chemistry to the science of cooking, which has for three years been carried on as an educational agency by Mrs. Robert H. Richards and Mrs. Dr. John J. Abel, with pecuniary assistance from certain public-spirited citizens of Boston. -
Martha Rensselaer
Martha Van Rensselaer was a founding co-director of the College of Home Economics, which led to the establishment of the New York State College of Human Ecology in Ithaca, New York. Van Rensselaer served as an educator and proponent of the application of knowledge to improved quality of life in the home. -
Family Consumer Sciences was created
Women teaching leaders gathered around Lake Placid and decided to found the name and study of Family Consumer Sciences. -
C.F Langworthy
C.F Langworthy was a author that edited the Journal of Home Economics. His main area of study was chemical composition of food. As well as W.O Atwater, he wrote nutrition bulletins too. -
AAFCS
American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences is an American professional association that networks professionals in the area of family and consumer science. It was founded in 1908 as the American Home Economics Association by Ellen H. Richards. In 1994 it changed its name to the current one. -
Clara WIlliams
Clara Williams was the first African American to become a student at a university, graduate, and also became a teacher in FCS and taught night school as well. -
Smith-Lever Act
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. -
Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics is the world's largest organization of nutrition and dietetics practitioners founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1917, by a visionary group of women dedicated to helping the government conserve food and improve the public's health and nutrition during World War I. -
Smith Hughes Act
Smith-Hughes Act, formally National Vocational Education Act, U.S. legislation, adopted in 1917, that provided federal aid to the states for the purpose of promoting precollegiate vocational education in agricultural and industrial trades and in home economics. -
Lulu Graves
Graves was associate professor of home economics at Iowa State College early in her career. She was professor of home economics at Cornell University, where she began a training program for hospital dietitians. She also was the President of the ADA. -
Vocational Education Act
The vocational education act of 1963 was enacted by congress to offer new and expanded vocational education programs to bring job training into harmony with the industrial, economic, and social realities of today and the needs for tomorrow. -
Vocational Amendments (1968)
The Vocational Amendments in 1968 addressed the nation's social and economic problems and continued funding for students who were at risk or with disabilities. The STWOA supplied funding to states to connect education and careers for all students. States could apply for five-year grants. -
Vocational Amendment (1976)
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. -
Carl Perkins Act
The Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006 (Perkins IV) is a principal source of federal funding to states and discretionary grantees for the improvement of secondary and postsecondary career and technical education programs across the nation.