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"Inclusion or acquisition? Learning about justice, education, and property from the Morrill Land-Grant Acts." Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies 43.5 (2021): 419–439. Sorber, Nathan M. Land-grant colleges and popular revolt: The origins of the Morrill Act and the reform of higher education (Cornell University Press, 2018) online.
The first piece of federal education legislation passed by Congress was the Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act.This bill was passed as a means for the Federal government to provide land proportional to the number of Congressmen and Senators a state had for states to use to create agricultural colleges. [3]
Logo for the centennial of land-grant universities. A land-grant university (also called land-grant college or land-grant institution) is 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, [1] or a beneficiary under the Equity in Educational Land-Grant Status Act of 1994. [2]
In 1862, [26] the federal government's Morrill Act provided for land grant colleges in each state. Educational institutions established under the Morrill Act in the North and West were open to blacks. But 17 states, almost all in the South, required their post-Civil war systems to be segregated and excluded black students from their land grant ...
Replaced the Adult Education Act and the National Literacy Act. Pub. L. 105–220 (text) 1998 Higher Education Amendments of 1998 Pub. L. 105–244 (text) 1998 Charter School Expansion Act of 1998: Amended the Elementary and Secondary Education Act to make charter schools eligible for federal funding. Pub. L. 105–278 (text) 1998
Morrill Hall at Iowa State University, one of several Morrill Halls at colleges created by the Morrill Act The Morrill Tariff of 1861 was a protective tariff law adopted on March 2, 1861. Passed after anti-tariff southerners had left Congress during the process of secession, Morrill designed it with the advice of Pennsylvania economist Henry C ...
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The U.S. Federal Board for Vocational Education, often referred to as the Federal Board of Vocational Education, was created in 1917 and lasted until 1946. It was created by the Smith-Hughes Act of 1917 to promote nationwide vocational education for students interested in agriculture, industry, and home-economics.