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The Land Grant Mission

Justin S. Morrill

Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862

• A system to provide funds to establish, support and maintain at least one college in each state to teach agriculture, mechanical arts and military sciences.

• “Liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions of life.”

William Henry Hatch

Hatch Act of 1887

• Provided federal funding for state experiment stations

• Purpose was to conduct research to improve production agriculture

Smith-Lever Act of 1914• Established Cooperative Extension Service

• Purpose was to provide and extension of the land grant college to local communities

• Placed “agents” of the university in local counties

Legislation Forming the Land GrantsThree Missions

• TEACHING – MORRILL ACT

• CASNR - COLLEGE

• RESEARCH – HATCH ACT

• OAES – EXPERIMENT STATION

• EXTENSION – SMITH/LEVER ACT

• OCES – COOPERATIVE EXTENSION

Morrill Act of 1890

• Provided funding for agricultural and mechanical colleges for black citizens in Southern states

• Same basic provisions as 1862 act

1890 Land Grants

Prairie View A&M

Langston

Lincoln

UA Pine Bluff

Kentucky State

Virginia StateVirginia State

NC A&TTenn State

Southern

AlcornTuskegee

Ala A&MFt. Valley

State

Florida A&M

SC State

Delaware

StateU M

Eastern Shore

What are the Land Grants What are the Land Grants of the Big XII?of the Big XII?

The Athletic Logo – Registered Brand of OAES

OSU Seals

1890

Oklahoma Agricultural &Mechanical College

1894

Oklahoma A&M

Old Central

1894

Oklahoma State University

• Can you name the campuses?

• What are the nine colleges?

• An 1862 institution

• multi-campus system

• 9 different colleges

DASNR listed at bottom of okstate.edu

ORGANIZATION

• STATE LEGISLATURE

• OK HIGHER REGENTS – Chancellor Glen Johnson

• OK A&M REGENTS – Chairman Tucker Link

• PRESIDENT – President Burns Hargis

• V.P., DEAN & DIRECTOR

• AGENCIES AND COLLEGE

• DEPARTMENTS

Nine Academic Departments

1. Agricultural Economics2. Agricultural Education, Communications and Leadership3. Animal Science4. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology5. Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering6. Entomology and Plant Pathology7. Horticulture and Landscape Architecture8. Natural Resource Ecology and Management9. Plant and Soil Sciences

Other DASNR Programs

• Family and Consumer Sciences

• 4-H Youth Development

• Food and Agricultural Products Center

• Field and Research Services Units

• Water Research and Extension Center

• NIMFFAB

• Institute for Agricultural Biosciences

• Biobased Products and Energy Center

Questions to Ponder1. What does it mean to have a degree from a LGU?

2. What is expected of people who work at LGUs?

3. Who do land grant colleges serve?

4. Who do experiment stations serve?

• The public? Private entities?

5. What is Extension’s role?

6. Are outreach and Extension the same thing?