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Morrill Land-Grant Acts; Other short titles: Land-Grant Agricultural and Mechanical College Act of 1862: Long title: An Act donating Public Lands to the several States and Territories which may provide Colleges for the Benefit of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts. Nicknames: Morrill Act of 1862: Enacted by: the 37th United States Congress ...
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]
According to historian Robert Lee [1] and the other authors of the report "Land-Grab Universities, a High Country News Investigation" (2020), lands subject to the unratified treaties were taken by the United States government and sold to fund the land-grant universities established by the Morill Land-Grant Act of 1862. [2] [3]
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The Wilderness Society estimates that if the standards used by Utah to land on its 18.5 million acre figure were applied across country, BLM would have to get rid of some 210 million acres of land ...
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.
High Country News has received numerous journalism and environmental awards, including (but not limited to): 2020 George Polk Award for Education Reporting [9] for "Land Grab Universities" by Tristan Ahtone and Robert Lee; 2018 James Beard Foundation Journalism Awards, Foodways category, [10] for "The Teenage Whaler's Tale" by Julia O'Malley
High Country News "for 'Land Grab Universities,' the result of a two- year investigation exploring the dark side of a federal initiative considered a hallmark achievement, the 1862 Morrill Act. The law transferred nearly 11 million acres to the states to fund the establishment of 52 land grant colleges.