timeline history of FCS

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  • Metabolic Cart

    Metabolic Cart

    measures gas exchange
  • First FACS textbook

    First FACS textbook

  • Morrill Act

    Provided grants of land to states to finance the establishments of colleges
  • 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
  • Grant Universities in AR

    University of Arkansas in Fayetteville
    University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff
  • W.O Atwater

    W.O Atwater

    known for his popular articles on food and tables of food composition. Invented the bomb colorimeter
  • Journal of Economics

    Journal of Economics

  • Benjamin Thompson

    Benjamin Thompson

    Rumford Kitchen at the Chicago World's fair of 1893 was named after Count Rumford
  • Ellen Richards

    Ellen Richards

    beginning of school lunch programs
  • The Rumford Kitchen

    The Rumford Kitchen

  • Lake Placid Conference

    Lake Placid Conference

  • Martha Rensselaer

    Martha Rensselaer

    Developed Cooperative Extension Service
    Programs at Cornell University, NY
  • Smith Lever Act

    established FACS as a part of the Cooperative Extension Services.
  • Smith Hughes Act

    Provided federal aid to the states for the purpose of promoting pre collegiate vocational education in home economics
  • Clara Belle Drisdane Williams

    Clara Belle Drisdane Williams

    became a teacher to black students by day and taught their parents home economics by night
  • Vocational Education Acts

    Created support for work study programs and research
  • Vocational Amendment

    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.
  • Vocational Amendment

    the first vocational legislation to officially reference postsecondary students.
  • Carl Perkins Act

    The main federal law supporting the development of career and technical skills among students in secondary and postsecondary education.

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