Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities

When the 20th century started, life started to change and improve, and public education was one of the many things that started to improve and become popular. Education was almost null and void before the start of the century. Since jobs did not require any amount of education, there were no real need for schools. The turning point for education came around 1877-1917. During this time, education was part of America’s focus point to try and improve attendance, graduation rates, and curriculums of…

An HBCU, or Historically Black College and University, is a College or Universities geared towards building a learning institution specifically for students of African-American descent to safely matriculate while also learning about and celebrating their legacy of black excellence. HBCUs have been around as long as African Americans have been able to educate themselves. With constitutional approval, HBCUs have continued to flourish throughout history Many students attend HBCUs to receive higher…

visual a twenty first century person imagines when they think of “home economics.” Domestic work has evolved from a traditional mother to daughter teaching occasion before the mid 1800s, to Beecher’s idea of a separate professional sphere, to an association established in the early 1900s. Before the mid-1800s, girls learned skills like cooking, cleaning, childcare, and other domestic subjects from their mothers, aunts, and grandmothers. Society valued experience over analysis and expertise…

Movement of the 1960s, also called the Chicano Civil Rights Movement, which fought for Mexican American Civil Right with the stated goal of achieving Mexican American empowerment. Chicano movement goals included many issues like restoration of land grants, improved education, farm workers' rights, and to voting and political rights. Generally, the Chicano Movement addressed negative cultural stereotypes of Mexicans. Chicano movement included many people from different culture to fight for their…

accountable to taxpayers and American citizens in this regard requires continuous analysis of policies and procedures to ensure adequate stewardship of public trust. Towards this agenda, three organizations (the Council on Government Relations (COGR), the Association of American University (AAU), and the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU)) joined forces to provide recommendations “for regulatory reform that would improve…

In a discussion paper developed by member of the Association of Public and Land Grant Universities, the Science and Mathematics Teacher Imperative and The Leadership Collaborative organizations, the team identify the role of teacher preparatory programs in supporting the Common Core State Standards initiative. The team also…

Congressman Justin Morrill. According to Scott (2014), the Morrill Act or Land-Grant College Act of 1862 “was one of the most important pieces of legislation concerning vocational and higher education ever passed by Congress” (p. 183). The Land-Grant Act provided each state with 30,000 acres of federal land for each congressional representative for that state (Gordon, 2014). With this acreage, each state was to sell or lease the land in order to establish new schools or support existing schools…

The leader I’ve chosen is V. Burns Hargis, the 18th President of Oklahoma State University. He was named the president in December 2007 and is only the second OSU graduate to serve as the university’s president. President Hargis holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Oklahoma State University and a Juris Doctorate from the University of Oklahoma. Before being named the President of OSU, Hargis led a distinguished law and business career. He was also community minded and displayed…

preached everyone had duty to become rich. - Andrew Carnegie’s article “Wealthy” argued wealthy had a God-given responsibility to carry out projects of civic philanthropy to benefit society & he even gave out over $350 mil to support libraries, universities, & public…

particular from land-based activities, including marine debris and nutrient pollution”. This target is difficult to measure because without a quantitative objective, the target is left open for interpretation. Targets 14.3 through to 14.7 are measurable targets. 14.3 attempts to "minimize and address the impacts of ocean acidification, including and through enhanced scientific cooperation at all levels”. Measuring scientific research is simpler because the results are presented to the public.…