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Gillon, Kathleen E. – Journal of Women and Gender in Higher Education, 2022
Today, institutions of higher education enroll rural students, and specifically rural women, at rates lower than their urban counterparts (Flora et al., 2018). Additionally, the disciplines of teaching and home economics continue to dominate the curricular choices of rural women. As higher education scholars continue to explore these phenomena, a…
Descriptors: Females, Rural Areas, Family and Consumer Sciences, Educational Policy
Blauch, Lloyd E. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1933
During the past quarter of a century there have been rather continuous and persistent efforts for Federal aid to education. Twenty-one years ago the Congress of the United States enacted the Smith-Lever Agricultural Extension Act, and 3 years later it passed the Smith-Hughes Vocational Education Act. Under the Smith-Lever Act and subsequent…
Descriptors: Educational History, Federal Government, Federal Legislation, Extension Education