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This is a list of land-grant colleges and universities in the United States of America and its associated territories. [1] Land-grant institutions are often categorized as 1862, 1890, and 1994 institutions, based on the date of the legislation that designated most of them with land-grant status.
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]
The Missouri Prairie Foundation (MPF) is a private-sector nonprofit foundation dedicated to the stewardship of original and replanted tallgrass prairie lands in the U.S. state of Missouri. Missouri, together with its neighbor state Iowa , are at the heart of the tallgrass prairie biome.
The University of Missouri (Mizzou or MU) is a public land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri, United States. It is Missouri's largest university and the flagship of the four-campus University of Missouri System. Founded in 1839, MU was the first public university west of the Mississippi River. [17]
Free land claims have a long history in the U.S., going back as far as the 1862 Homestead Act that granted citizens and intended citizens government land to live on and cultivate. Although the ...
The table below summarizes the cooperative extension programs in each state. (Under the 1890 amendment to the Morrill Act, if a state's land-grant university was not open to all races, a separate land-grant university had to be established for each race. Hence, some states have more than one land-grant university.)
Bill Eigel, a Republican candidate in Missouri's 2024 gubernatorial race, poses for a photo with an attendee at the Mike Lindell Election Crime Bureau Summit in Springfield, MO on Aug. 16, 2023.
A 2023 law gave Missouri seniors the opportunity to freeze their property taxes. New legislation hopes to clarify how it will work. ... The Missouri General Assembly passed a bill last year that ...