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Justin Smith Morrill
Representative and Senator from Vermont, who established federal funding for many of the United States public colleges and universities. -
Morrill Act of 1862
Morrill's Land Grant passed, making each eligible state able to receive a total of 30,000 acres of federal land used towards establishing these institutions. -
Land Grant University's
A higher education institution that receives benefits from the Morrill Act of 1862. The Land Grant Universities in Arkansas include the following: University of Arkansas and the University of Pine Bluff -
Lake Placid Conferences
Initiated by Melvil Dewey, based on an interest in the field of household science. Ellen H. Richards was influential in providing organization and leadership to the meetings -
Ellen Richards
New organization was chartered called The American Home Economics Association -
AAFCS
American Association of Family and Consumer Science was founded in 1909 -
Smith Lever Act of 1914
Established a system of cooperative extension services, connected to land grant universities, to inform about current developments in Family and Consumer Science fields. -
Smith Hughes Act of 1917
promoted vocational education in agriculture, trades and industry, and homemaking, and provided federal funds for this purpose. -
Iowa State College
At this time, they were the only program granting a Master of Science in Household Equipment -
FCCLA
FCCLA, Family, Career and Community Leaders of America, was founded. -
Cornell University Programs
Number of university level home economic programs have been renamed to human ecology -
Vocational Education Acts of 1963
Provided grants to states to maintain, improve, and develop vocational-technical education programs -
Vocational Amendment of 1968
Extended the Vocational Education Acts of 1963, focusing more on people than occupations. National and state advisory councils are required. -
Vocational Amendment of 1973
This amendment prohibited the discrimination on the basis of handicap in any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance -
Vocational Amendment of 1976
This amendment was not only to improve the standards of vocational education, but also to expand offerings to disadvantaged students and eliminate sex bias and stereotyping in vocational education -
Carl Perkins Vocational Act of 1984
Aims to increase the quality of technical education within the United States in order to help the economy -
Carl Perkins Act of 1990
Purpose was to develop more fully the academic, vocational, and technical skills of secondary students an post-secondary students who elect to enroll in vocational and technical education programs. -
HomeEc changed to FACS
Home Economics name changed to Family and Consumer Sciences -
Carl Perkins Act of 2006
1) Using the term "career and technical education" instead of "vocational education"
2) Maintaining the Tech Prep Program as a separate federal funding stream within the legislation
3) Maintaining state administrative funding at 5 percent of a state's allocation -
The Perkins Act
In 2012 the law was extended to 1.3 Billion in federal support toward career and technical education programs in all 50 states