LAND-GRANT COLLEGES NEED NEW GRANTS From: ASEE Prism | Date: March 1, 2004| Author: | Copyright American Society for Engineering Education Mar 2004. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

One important reason why the United States became a world power in the 20th century is the land-grant college, an American invention that helped support the agriculture that undergirded the nation's economy. The 1862 Morrill Act granted federal land to each state to provide financial resources for the establishment of an institution of higher learning in "agriculture and the mechanic arts." The resulting colleges provided a nationwide higher-education system that made it possible for the children of farmers and urban workers to go to college at a reasonable cost. Within a short time, the ...

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