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Land Grant Universities Celebrating 100 years … turning science into solutions

Land Grant Universities Celebrating 100 years … turning science into solutions . Connie Schneider, Director ANR Statewide Youth, Families and Communities Program Tuesday, January 15, 2013. Overview. What is our history? What is our future?. The Beginning of LGU.

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Land Grant Universities Celebrating 100 years … turning science into solutions

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  1. Land Grant Universities Celebrating 100 years … turning science into solutions Connie Schneider, Director ANR Statewide Youth, Families and Communities Program Tuesday, January 15, 2013

  2. Overview • What is our history? • What is our future?

  3. The Beginning of LGU In two Congressional Acts (1862 &1890), specific universities were designated as land-grant universities. States received federally-controlled land for the purpose of education. Mission: Teach agriculture and mechanic arts

  4. Historic LGU Timelines • 1869: UC starts agriculture, mining and mechanical arts programs • 1887: Birth of Experiment stations through Hatch Act Federal Funding for agricultural research in LGU • 1890: Morrill Act authorizes expansion to more LGU • 1897: UC creates Dept of UC Extension in Ag • 1905: An Extension Committee was formed = Birth of ECOP: Extension Committee on Organization and Policies

  5. 1908 CA Birth of Demonstration Education

  6. Teach Children to Teach Adults

  7. Historic LGU Timelines (con’t) 4-H • 1907: USDA sponsors first Boys and Girls Ag clubs, symbol of 3-leaf clover • 1911: 4-H name was born 4-leaf clover. • 1912: UC encouraged ag clubs • 1913: Ag club college of ag, Davis • 1914: 4-H becomes an Act of Congress

  8. 1914 Smith-Lever Act: Cooperative Extension

  9. Mission: Educational Training and Assistance 1. Agriculture 2. Home Economics (Family and Consumer Sciences) 3. 4-H Youth Development 4. Community Development

  10. Home Demonstration Agents 1916: CA Purpose • Canning, jelly making • Nutrition • Home economy • Home management

  11. Extension Part of War Efforts

  12. Women’s Land Army

  13. Increase in Extension “Homemaking” • World War I and II • 1936: Extension Homemakers organize the National Extension Homemakers Council (NEHC) • 1949: Home Demonstration Agents became Home Advisors. 4-H expanded from rural only youth. • 1950’s: New specialists added for education, home economics, consumer marketing, 4-H, youth counseling. • 1960’s:Home economics becomes “Family and Consumer Sciences.” Great Society pledge to help poor Americans learn how to select and prepare healthy food.

  14. Nutrition, Family, and Consumer Sciences • 1964: Traditional Home Economics shifts toward dissemination of science based information on nutrition, consumer economics, and healthy family relationships. • 1969: Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program for low income families (EFNEP). Leadership given to Extension home economics and 4-H staff • 1995: UC-FSNEP began • Food stamps Act 1964; education included 1988 and 1990 legislation • 1980’s-1990’s: EFNEP funding decreases • 2000’s: Changes in FSNEP Guidance

  15. Funding • Federal: National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA); USDA • http://www.nifa.usda.gov/ • State, County • Federal Reporting • Enrollments, outreach and advocacy efforts • Outcomes, impacts, research and publications

  16. 10 UC Campuses3 have extension responsibilities Davis Berkeley Riverside

  17. Where is ANR? • The Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources evolved from a reorganization in 1952. • Within our system ANR is the bridge between local issues and the power of UC research. • UCCE are the county offices within the Division of ANR. • 1974 UCCE name established!

  18. What is our future? ANR is the bridge between local issues and the power of UC research. Let’s remind ourselves how far we have come!

  19. Developing Gardens - Then

  20. Now: Developing Gardens

  21. Designing homemaking interventions- Then

  22. Now: Designing Home - Community Interventions: Tracking Outcomes

  23. Then: Nutrition Education

  24. Now: NE– Evaluation & Research

  25. The Future – We will determine • LGU and Cooperative Extensions are restructuring and reorganizing to meet today’s consumer learning styles and critical issues. • Internal and external cross disciplinary efforts to address high-priority societal problems

  26. Coming Soon! Healthy Families & Communities Special EditionJan-Mar 2013

  27. Planning Birthday Celebration Need NFCS county photos & stories! cschneider@ucanr.edu

  28. For being part of the UCCE family working to deliver a healthier California! Thank You!

  29. References • Braverman MT, Franz, NK, Rennekamp RA.2012. Extension’s Evolving Alignment of Programs Serving Fameilies and Youth: Organizational Change and Its Implications. JOE.50:6. http://www.joe.org/joe/2012december/pdf/JOE_v50_6a1.pdf • Editors. UC land grants: A photo history. 2012. California Agriculture 66(2):46-49. DOI: 10.3733/ca.v066n02p46. http://ucanr.org/repository/cao/landingpage.cfm?article=ca.v066n02p46&fulltext=yes • UC Berkeley, Taking the University to the People: University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources Oral History Project http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ROHO/projects/anr/about.html • UC CA 4-H History http://www.ca4h.org/About/History/CaliforniaHistory/

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