As a stipulation for the receipt of the funds, each state had to either prove that race was not a criterion for admission to the already established
land-grant college, or establish, from its own revenue, a school of agriculture and the mechanic arts for colored students.
Cooperative Extension is a publicly-funded, education system providing non-formal education to individuals through the links between the education and research resources of the United States Department of Agriculture,
land-grant universities, and administration within the county units (Seevers, Graham, Gamon, & Conklin, 1997).
There is nothing comparable to the
land-grant university system anywhere else.
Our conclusion, therefore, is that the original objectives of the
land-grant model are still valid, and Alaska's land still holds financial promise to UA worthy of a serious reassessment.
Land-grant institutions and doctoral and research institutions appear in the study group at 4.0 times the frequency they appear in the comparative group.
Need Score for College Skills Alumni from Alabama and Tennessee
Land-Grant Universities Rated as Essential to Acquire in Their College Education (N = 402) (1).
Again, the same question: Will extension and others in the
land-grant system provide the necessary leadership for extension to become heavily engaged in these eight areas?
Kenyon Butterfield's family heritage of involvement with
land-grant colleges clearly influenced his career and his philosophy regarding education.
Other
land-grant institutions face similar challenges with graduating students.
I admit to having been a bit perplexed by these challenges at first, having myself graduated from the honors college at a
land-grant public institution in the same athletic conference.
The gathering, which focuses on how open online archives can be improved, features keynote addresses from John Wilbanks, vice president for science at Creative Commons and director of the Science Commons program; Bob Witeck, CEO and co-founder of Witeck-Combs Communications; and David Shulenburger, vice president for academic affairs at the National Association of State University and
Land-Grant Colleges.
The 73-year-old indigenous
land-grant property owner, who had been fighting to keep the surveyors off her land, was the last of more than 50 property owners the federal government had sued.