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	Land-grant university - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Land-grant universities (also called land-grant colleges or land grant institutions) are institutions of higher education in the United States which have been designated by Congress to receive the benefits of the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890.
		Land-grant universities are not to be confused with Sea Grant Colleges (a program instituted in 1966), Space Grant Colleges (instituted in 1988) or Sun Grant Colleges (instituted in 2003).
		The University of the District of Columbia received land-grant status and a $7.24 million endowment (USD), in lieu of a land grant, in 1967.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Land-grant_university (427 words)

	Demos - A Network for Ideas & Action - Land Grant Colleges-Forgotten History
		Land grant institutions were designated by The Morrill Act of 1862, which was signed into law by President Lincoln, and was intended, among other mandates, to expand access to public higher education.
		Land grant institutions are public institutions and, in many instances, were founded or kept in existence in part with public dollars.
		As a result, the contract between land grant institutions and the public it is supposed to serve is increasingly being broken.
	www.demos-usa.org /pub584.cfm (823 words)

	Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Morrill Land-Grant Acts are pieces of US legislation that allowed for the creation of land-grant colleges, which would be funded by the grant of federally-controlled land to each of the states which had stayed with the United States during the American Civil War.
		Under the act, each eligible state received a total of 30,000 acres (121 km²) of federal land, either within or contiguous to its boundaries, for each member of congress the state had as of the census of 1860.
		Among the seventy colleges and universities which eventually evolved from the Morrill Acts are several of today's historically fl colleges.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Morrill_Land-Grant_Colleges_Act (418 words)

	Land grant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Land grant colleges are committed to providing both a practical and a liberal arts education: applied sciences and the arts.
		The Morrill Act of 1862 gave states a grant of 30,000 acres of public land for every member of its congressional delegation.
		These land grant colleges have halls named in honor of Rep. Justin Morrill and the Morrill Act.
	www.msu.edu /~simonsjo/history/edisonhistory/landgrant/template.html (105 words)

	ASEE PRISM - Mar 2004 - Last Word: Land-Grant Colleges Need New Grants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Within a short time, the colleges offered programs in physical and natural sciences to support the training they provided in agriculture and engineering, and their professors applied scientific principles to teaching and research in agriculture.
		Decreasing federal appropriations means that land-grant colleges are now supported mainly by the states, which have less and less money for the colleges because of other demands on tax revenues.
		Now that the colleges are unable to persuade legislatures to restore appropriations to earlier levels, administrators expect faculty members to come up with the funds they need for their own research.
	www.prism-magazine.org /mar04/lastword.cfm (612 words)

	The Morrill Act and the Land-Grant Colleges
		...at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts...
		Much of the land was bought by speculators and the large supply meant that most states received very little for their land.
		Some states were able to hold their allotment for several years and sell at a much higher price (the land allotted to Cornell University was eventually sold for over $5.50 per acre).
	www.uky.edu /CampusGuide/land-grant.html (191 words)

	AllRefer.com - land-grant colleges and universities (Education: Terms And Concepts) - Encyclopedia
		land-grant colleges and universities, U.S. institutions benefiting from the provisions of the Morrill Act (1862), which gave to the states federal lands for the establishment of colleges offering programs in agriculture, engineering, and home economics as well as in the traditional academic subjects.
		Although the act itself did not stipulate that the training be compulsory, nearly every state had made it so by the 1920s.
		In 1994, 29 Native American tribal colleges gained land-grant status, bringing the total number of land-grant institutions to 105.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/L/landgran.html (349 words)

	The Iowa Stater
		Before the land- grant universities, college was for a select and scholarly few -- who mostly went to school to study Latin, logic and other classical topics.
		The act called for the federal government to provide each state with a grant of land that could be sold to finance a college, hence the name "land-grant." Iowa was the first state to accept the provisions of the Morrill Act and good money managers parlayed 204,000 acres into an $800,000 endowment for a university.
		The act enabled the colleges to conduct agricultural research and uncover scientific knowledge that could be shared with students and farmers.
	www.iastate.edu /IaStater/1997/feb/landgrant.html (1151 words)

	land-grant colleges and universities on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Peter Magrath, president of the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges and a former president of the University of Minnesota.(Appointed And Promoted)
		From the liberal to the practical arts in American colleges and universities: organizational analysis and curricular change.
		Faculty in a liminal landscape: a case study of a college reorganization.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/l1/landgran.asp (555 words)

	Land grant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The scheme that he came up with was that Western lands could be sold, the proceeds of those could be given to the states, and the states could then use that money to build agricultural and mechanical institutions--institutions to train people in the latest techniques in agriculture.
		The first one was founded by the state of Michigan as Michigan Agricultural College in the middle of a swamp a few miles away from the state capital.
		And then you have the old land grant institutions, almost all of which had become full-fledged universities, which are intended increasingly to provide the kind of transition from the working class and from the farm into the middle class for people whose families had not had that background.
	www.msu.edu /~simonsjo/history/edisonhistory/landgrant/template2.html (777 words)

	ASEE Prism: LAND-GRANT COLLEGES NEED NEW GRANTS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Within a short time, the colleges offered programs in physical and natural sciences to support the training they provided in agriculture and engineering, and their professors applied seientific principles to teaching and research in agriculture.
		Those institutions no longer had the resources to conduct basic research if they were to continue to fulfill their traditional missions of education and using science for the betteerment of agriculture and the public in their area, state, or region.
		Unless we speak up now and convince legislators and administrators at land-grant colleges that the current trends will be disastrous in the long run, the great American experiment of combining research, teaching, and extension for the public good-so successful in the past-will become only a memory.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3797/is_200403/ai_n9371043 (706 words)

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		The Act of 1862 proposed a system of broad education by colleges, not limited to a superficial and dwarfed training, such as might be supplied by a foreman of a workshop or by a foreman of an experimental farm.
		The University of the District of Columbia, arguing that it was "the last substantial area in the nation without the services of a land-grant college," received land-grant status and a $7.24 million endowment in lieu of a land grant in 1967.
		Land-grant status was conferred on the 29 Native American colleges in 1994 as a provision of the Elementary and Secondary Education Reauthorization Act.
	www.wvu.edu /~exten/about/land.htm (3169 words)

	Land Grant Information * Chronology
		This provided for the further development of agricultural extension work at the 1862 land-grant colleges and that future funds be allocated "in addition to and not a substitute for" those made available in the Smith-Lever Act of 1914.
		Since there is no longer adequate federal land to donate for the creation of an endowment, the University of Hawaii is given a $ 6 million endowment in lieu of land scrip.
		The colleges were to receive annual interest payments from the endowment.
	www.ifas.ufl.edu /ls_grant/timeline.htm (1545 words)

	Land Grant Colleges Failing Organic Farmers
		It represents the first comprehensive listing of organic research projects underway at the nation's 67 land grant schools, which are charged with supporting agriculture through research, education and extension.
		In summarizing her findings, Sooby discovered that of the 885,863 available research acres in the land grant system, only 0.02%, or 151 acres, is devoted to certified organic research.
		The 68-page report, State of the States: Organic Farming Systems Research at Land Grant Institutions 2000-2001, is available free of charge from the Organic Farming Research Foundation, PO Box 440, Santa Cruz, CA 95061.
	www.pmac.net /failing_farmers.html (571 words)

	Land-grant Background
		Three acts signed by President Lincoln in 1862 shaped the U.S. Agricultural history: the act authorizing a U.S. Department of Agriculture; the Homestead Act, encouraging settlement of public domain lands; and the Morrill Act establishing land grant colleges in every state and placing instruction in agriculture and home economics in higher education.
		The Homestead Act caused a stampede for land (which was practically for free) and new problems arose.
		The history and formation of the cooperative extension dates back to The Hatch Act of 1887 which established a cooperative bond between USDA and the nation's land grant colleges allocating annual federal funding for research.
	are.berkeley.edu /coopext/bkground.html (787 words)

	BACKGROUNDER ON THE MORRILL ACT
		The states were to sell this land and use the proceeds to establish colleges in engineering, agriculture and military science.
		Over seventy "land grant" colleges, as they came to be known, were established under the original Morrill Act; a second act in 1890 extended the land grant provisions to the sixteen southern states.
		The importance of the land grant colleges cannot be exaggerated.
	usinfo.state.gov /usa/infousa/facts/democrac/27.htm (454 words)

	The Land-Grant University
		Each state was to sell the land and invest the proceeds in an endowment, the interest to be used, in the language of the Act, to establish:
		Horace Stockbridge was appointed to the dual role of president of the college and director of the agricultural experiment station.
		NDAC became North Dakota State University of Agriculture and Applied Sciences upon passage of a proposed amendment to the state constitution in the election of 1960.
	www.ag.ndsu.nodak.edu /orientation/landgrant/landgrant.htm (898 words)

	1862 Land Grant Colleges and Universities \| Analysis Products \| State of the Land \| NRCS
		This map shows the names and locations of the Land Grant Universities and Colleges recognized by the Morrill Act of 1862.
		The names of the universities and colleges are hyperlinked to the respective institution's web page if one was available.
		The College of Micronesia is not shown in its correct geographic location.
	www.nrcs.usda.gov /technical/land/meta/m2784.html (133 words)

	Morrill Land Grant Acts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The new piece of legislation introduced by U.S. Representative Justin Smith Morrill of Vermont granted to each state 30,000 acres of public land for each Senator and Representative under apportionment based on the 1860 census.
		Proceeds from the sale of these lands were to be invested in a perpetual endowment fund which would provide support for colleges of agriculture and mechanical arts in each of the states.
		AN ACT To apply a portion of the proceeds of the public lands to the more complete endowment and support of the colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts established under the provisions of an act of Congress approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two.
	www.higher-ed.org /resources/morrill_acts.htm (205 words)

	GreenvilleOnline.com - Land-grant colleges planted a legacy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The states could then sell the land and use the proceeds to establish colleges that would offer engineering, agriculture and military science as well as the liberal arts and sciences so as to promote "liberal and practical education" accessible to the general public.
		As Sen. Morrill later explained, "The land-grant colleges were founded on the idea that a higher and broader education should be placed in every State within the reach" of the working classes.
		The college was founded in 1889 when Thomas Green Clemson willed his Fort Hill plantation to the state of South Carolina to establish a technical and scientific college.
	greenvilleonline.com /news/opinion/2003/12/21/2003122121373.htm (905 words)

	CAS LandGrant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Land Grants Acts, History, and Members from the University of Florida
		Land Grant Libraries from the National Agricultural Library
		Land Grant System of Education in the United States from Ohio State University
	www.cas.psu.edu /docs/casadmin/NSO/landgrant.html (77 words)

	Glossary of Terms for the Land-Grant System and Related Organizations
		The Justin Morrill Land-Grant Act of 1862 which provided federal support in the form of a grant of federal lands to any state or territory which agreed to establish a public institution for the teaching of agriculture and the mechanical arts, and promote liberal and practical education.
		IAS (International Agriculture Section) - members are the designated administrators of international agriculture programs at the colleges of agriculture of all the states and territories.
		The representative governing body is an executive committee composed of the elected officers of the Association plus the 1890 representatives serving on ECOP and the ECOP budget committee.
	www.escop.msstate.edu /archive/orientation/glossary.htm (1012 words)

	Western Fruit Grower: Opinion: Biotech food and land grant colleges (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The LG Colleges of Agriculture in each state were started by the Morrill Act signed by President Lincoln in 1863 to teach agriculture and mechanical arts and assist farmers in growing more and better crops.
		Later the agricultural experiment stations and Extension services were added to the colleges to bring unbiased research and teaching to farmers.
		Starting in the 1960s, the research in these colleges has been gradually taken over by big self-interest grants of corporations working in agriculture, accounting now for over 60% of the college budgets, with 40% from public money.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3838/is_200106/ai_n8961308 (273 words)

	Overview of Small Farm Programs at the Land Grant Colleges and Universities
		Washington, DC This overview report on Small Farm Programs at the Land Grant Colleges and Universities is a compilation to share ideas, enhance collaboration and cooperation with on-going small efforts.
		The goal of the CSREES program for small farmers is to improve the income levels, and the economic viability of the small farm enterprises through a partnership effort with the land grant system, public and private sectors using some holistic/systems approach that addresses the needs of the total small farm family.
		Four land grant institutions-Cornell University, Kentucky State University, University of Delaware, and the University of Missouri are recipients of this pilot project award.
	www.nal.usda.gov /afsic/nsfc/38.htm (1149 words)

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