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Direct linkPearson, Calvin H.; Atucha, Amaya – Natural Sciences Education, 2015
In 1887, Congress passed the Hatch Act, which formally established and provided a funding mechanism for agricultural experiment stations in each state and territory in the United States. The main purpose of agricultural experiment stations is to conduct agricultural research to meet the needs of the citizens of the United States. The objective of…
Descriptors: Research Projects, Agricultural Education, Maps, Research and Development Centers
Download full textRoper, Carolyn D.; Hirth, Marilyn A. – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2005
This investigation traces the history of change in public higher education as it relates to its third mission, from the traditional service to the contemporary engagement. The article begins with the emergence of U.S. higher education institutions in the 1600s and documents the changes era by era to the present. In each era, higher education's…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Institutional Mission, Educational History, Educational Change
PDF pending restorationKelly, Fred J. – Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1952
The land-grant colleges and universities in the United States are the result of a partnership of the States and the Federal Government. They represent an effort to provide a type of higher education within the reach of, and adapted to the needs of, the agricultural and industrial people of this country. They have played a very important part in…
Descriptors: Educational History, Financial Policy, Access to Education, State Federal Aid
