The History of FACS

By stipton3

  • Catherine Beecher

    Catherine Beecher
    In 1852 she founded the American Woman’s Educational Association, which aimed to send teachers west to build schools on the developing frontier. Unlike other family members, Beecher opposed women’s suffrage. She argued that home and school are such important social forces that women should limit their lives to them.

  • Justin Smith Morrill

    Justin Smith Morrill
    -Vermont Congressman
    -Known as the "Father of the Senate"
    -Shaped legislation that created the first income tax
    -Created the "Land Grant College Act of 1862" or "Morrill Act"

  • Morrill Act 1862

    Morrill Act 1862
    Provided each state with 30,000 acres of Federal land for each member in their Congressional delegation for the benefit of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts. The land was placed for sale and 69 colleges were funded from this act.

  • Land-Grant Universities

    Land-Grant Universities
    The original mission of these institutions was to teach agriculture, military tactics, and the mechanics arts. The first Land-Grant Universities established were Kansas State University and State Agricultural College, which is now Iowa State University.

  • Arkansas Industrial University

    Arkansas Industrial University
    Arkansas Industrial University was founded in 1871 for Arkansas' first land-grant university. The name of the college would later be changed to the University of Arkansas.

  • Ellen H. Swallow Richards

    Ellen H. Swallow Richards
    -Best known for pioneering the field of sanitary engineering.
    -First woman to attend and graduate from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
    -Worked as a professor of chemistry at MIT for six years without pay.

  • Branch Normal College

    Branch Normal College
    Branch Normal College was the second land-grant university and was founded in 1873. This University is now named the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff.

  • Second Morrill Act

    Sought to extend access to higher education by providing additional endowments for all land-grants only if the state provided a separate institution for African-Americans as well.

  • American Home Economics Association (AHEA)

    American Home Economics Association (AHEA)
    -Founded by Ellen Richards
    -Believed that students who chose this field of study would be better homemakers and better prepared for people focused careers.

  • Smith-Lever Act of 1914

    -Established a Cooperative Extension Service for agriculture education through land-grant schools.
    -Helped increase agriculture production dramatically during this time.

  • Smith-Hughes Act of 1917

    Created the Federal Board for Vocational Education for the promotion of training in agriculture, trades and industries, commerce, and home economics in secondary schools.

  • American Vocational Association

    The American Vocational Association was created from the National Society for Vocational Education and the Vocational Education Association of the Middle West.

  • Agnes Fay Morgan

    Agnes Fay Morgan
    Agnes Faye Morgan, chair of Department of Home Economics at University of California Berkley, is appointed to serve on President Roosevelt First Nutritional Congress

  • Vocational Education Act of 1963

    Vocational education was expanded to “persons of all ages in all communities” in the Vocational Education Act of 1963. Funding for states was now authorized by student population rather than by field of study, including money for academically and economically disadvantaged and disabled students.

  • Vocational Amendment 1968

    The Vocational Education Amendments of 1968 was the first vocational legislation to officially reference postsecondary students. It extended set-aside funding for students from specific populations.

  • Vocational Rehabilitation Act of 1973

    The Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as Amended (Rehab Act) prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in programs conducted by federal agencies, in programs receiving federal financial assistance, in federal employment and in the employment practices of federal contractors.

  • Vocational Amendment 1976

    Equal opportunities for women and girls were promoted.

  • Carl D. Perkins

    Carl D. Perkins
    Democrat Representative from Kentucky and founder of the Carl D. Perkins Act.

  • Carl Perkins Act

    Aims to increase the quality of technical education within the United States by providing individuals with the academic and technical skills necessary to be successful in a knowledge- and skill-based economy.

  • Third Land-Grant Act

    Conferred land-grant statues to Native American tribal colleges.