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Wrote first FACS textbook, "A Treatise on Domestic Economy," recognized by the Department of Education; continued to write 33 textbooks. -
Provided federal lands to the states to be sold to support colleges of agricultural and mechanical arts. Introduced colleges known as Land Grant Universities. -
The University of Arkansas was founded as a land-grant college and state university in 1871 -
She became the first woman to be granted the Bachelor of Science at MIT in 1873; powerful leader that mobilized a multitude of forces to launch new applied field; science consultant for the industry. -
The University of Arkansas opened up another campus in Pine Bluff in 1873 and was later designated as a land-grant university in 1890. -
In 1894, Ellen Richards introduces the first nutritional school lunch program in Boston out of a central facility. Richards and others delivered soups, sandwiches, meat pies, scalloped dishes, cakes, and pudding. -
The first Lake Placid Conference was held to begin the creation of the American Home Economics Association. -
The American Home Economics Association was established a couple years after the First Lake Placid Conference. -
The Smith Lever Act created the Cooperative Extension Service which included FACS. -
The Smith Hughes Act of 1917 established Family and Consumer Sciences as part of vocational education. -
In 1917 - 1920, Lulu C. Graves became the first president of the American Dietetic Association (ADA) -
AHEA set goals to not only maintain instruction for woman but appropriate home economic instruction for men. -
Home Economics is now added to the American Association of Land-Grant Colleges. Land Grant Universities were established under the Morrill Act of 1862.
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Flemme P. Kittrell became the first African American women to receive a doctorate in Nutrition when she graduated with a Ph.D. (with honors) in 1938. -
The chair of Department of Home Economics at University of California at Berkley, Agnes Fay Morgan, was appointed to serve on President Roosevelt's first Nutrition Congress. -
This act provided states with grants to expand, improve, and develop vocational-technical education programs. -
The vocational amendment of 1968 was an extension of the Vocational Education Act of 1963 but placed more emphasis on the people. The amendment of 1973 also extends from the same act but approves grants to states for vocational rehabilitation services. -
An extension to the Vocational Education Act of 1963, the amendment of 1976 required federally funded states to create programs to eliminate gender bias, stereotyping, and discrimination in vocational education. -
Founded in 1980, the NCBDFCS planned to enhance and strengthen the presence of FACS programs in traditionally black institutions. -
Passed in 1984, the Carl Perkins Act provided federal funds to states to create learning programs that best serve local economy needs. -
The Scottsdale Meeting was held in 1993 where it was recommended to change from 'Home Economics' to 'Family and Consumer Sciences.' The name was not officially changed until 1994.
