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Morrill Act of 1862
The Morrill Act (1862) was also known as the Land Grant College Act. It was a major boost to higher education in America. -
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Land Grant University
A land-grant 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. -
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Justin Smith Morrill
Justin Smith Morrill was the chief sponsor of the 1862 and 1890 Land-Grant Acts. These were the most important pieces of legislation for American higher education in the 19th century. -
Land Grant University
This act made it possible for new western states to establish colleges for their citizens. The new land-grant institutions, which emphasized agriculture and mechanic arts, opened opportunities to thousands of farmers and working people previously excluded from higher education. -
Charles Allen Prosser
He was the Father of Vocational Education in the United States and the architect of the 1917 Smith-Hughes Act. His mission in life was to help improve the education of American children. -
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Land Grant Universities in Arkansas
University of Arkansas at Fayetteville: The classification was in 1862, and it was established in 1871.
University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff: The classification was in 1890, and it was established in 1873. -
Booker T. Washington
Believed equality could be achieved through vocational education; accepted social separation. He founded the Tuskegee Vocational School in Alabama in 1881. -
Ellen Richards
In 1882 she published The Chemistry of Cooking and Cleaning: A Manual for Housekeepers. -
Morrill Act
A second Morrill Act in 1890 was aimed at the former Confederate states. This act required each state to show that race was not an admissions criterion, or else to designate a separate land-grant institution for persons of color. -
Smith Lever Act of 1914
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. -
Smith Hughes Act of 1917
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 pre collegiate vocational education in agricultural and industrial trades and in home economics. -
Mildred Chamberlain
In 1926, the American Home Economics Association adopted the Betty Lamp as a symbol for the association. The meaning of the lamp is "to make better". Mildred Chamberlain, submitted the design. -
Phyllis DePew Moeller
NATFACS is The National Association Teachers of Family and Consumer Sciences. Phyllis DePew Moeller served as the first chairman of NATFACS. -
Vocational Education Act of 1963
The Vocational Education Act of 1963 was enacted by congress to offer new and expand vocational education programs to bring job training into harmony with the industrial, economic, and social realities of today and the needs for tomorrow. -
Vocational Amendment of 1968
The Vocational Education Amendments of 1968 extend the work of the 1963 amendments, but the emphasis has changed from occupations to people. -
Vocational Amendment of 1973
Rehabilitation Act is a civil rights law. It was the first civil rights legislation in the United States designed to protect individuals with disabilities from discrimination based on their disability status. -
Vocational Amendment of 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 Vocational and Technical Education
Act was first authorized by the federal government in
1984. The Perkins Act is the primary federal funding source for high school, college and university CTE programs that are critical for preparing youth and adults, including immigrants, for jobs in local and regional economies. -
FACS
In 1994, the association, other organizations, and programs decided to change the name of the field to family and consumer sciences from home economics to more accurately reflect the complexity of the profession. -
Bettye Brown
Bettye Brown was elected to the position of NATFACS Administrative Assistant and began work, officially, July 1, 1997.
