...Land Grants: More Education for More People According to the United States Department of Agriculture, there are over 100 land grant colleges and universities in the United States (“National Institute”). Major universities such as the University of Arizona, Nebraska, Washington State, Clemson, and Cornell were chartered as land-grant schools (“100 Milestones”). Land grant colleges and universities are institutions that receive the benefits of the Morrill Act of 1862 and similar acts of Congress (“100 Milestones”). This paper will discuss the origins of college land grants through the Morrill Act of 1862; give brief historical overview of the application of this and other college land grant acts; and the relevance of college land grants in the United States during current times. Initially, the idea of college land grants was debated during the 1850’s. However it wasn’t until The Morrill Act of 1862 that the idea became law (Mansoor). The law was named after U.S. Congressman from Vermont, Justin Smith Morrill (Mansoor). Justin Morrill’s overall goal was to provide for at least one college in each state where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific or classical studies, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts ... in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes. (Mansoor) He also wanted to assure that education would be available to those in all social classes (“100 Milestones”)...
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...territory in The United States and the District of Columbia has at least one land-grant institution (Lee and Keys, 2013). Three important components shaped the structure of the land grant institutions, and these components are: teaching, research, and extension. A series of acts passed by the United States Congress led to born these three components. The three Acts are: Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890 for teaching, Hatch Act of 1887 for experimental stations, and Smith-Lever Act of 1914 for extension (Sherwood, 2004). In this short paper, I will describe the three important acts that led to create the...
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...Contents Title Page Dedication Prologue CHAPTER ONE: Republicans and Democrats CHAPTER TWO: Values CHAPTER THREE: Our Constitution CHAPTER FOUR: Politics CHAPTER FIVE: Opportunity CHAPTER SIX: Faith CHAPTER SEVEN: Race CHAPTER EIGHT: The World Beyond Our Borders CHAPTER NINE: Family Epilogue Acknowledgments About the Author Also by Barack Obama Copyright Prologue IT’S BEEN ALMOST ten years since I first ran for political office. I was thirty-five at the time, four years out of law school, recently married, and generally impatient with life. A seat in the Illinois legislature had opened up, and several friends suggested that I run, thinking that my work as a civil rights lawyer, and contacts from my days as a community organizer, would make me a viable candidate. After discussing it with my wife, I entered the race and proceeded to do what every first-time candidate does: I talked to anyone who would listen. I went to block club meetings and church socials, beauty shops and barbershops. If two guys were standing on a corner, I would cross the street to hand them campaign literature. And everywhere I went, I’d get some version of the same two questions. “Where’d you get that funny name?” And then: “You seem like a nice enough guy. Why do you want to go into something dirty and nasty like politics?” I was familiar with the question, a variant on the questions asked of me years earlier, when I’d first arrived in Chicago to work in low-income neighborhoods. It signaled a cynicism...
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