Land- Grant Universities produce individuals that contribute tremendously to the economy, and that goes for the Eastern Shore ...

Congressional passage of the Morrill Act in 1862 provided funds to establish state colleges close by and eventually those schools established extension offices where college teachers would come and ...

The University of Nevada, Reno was established as Nevada’s land-grant institution under the Morrill Act of 1862, which was signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln and provided for a land-grant ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has suspended a scholarship program designed to increase the number of agriculture students at the nation’s historically Black land-grant universities – a ...

The two-pronged Morrill Act (1862 and 1890) signed into federal law the creation of “land grant” institutions, colleges, and ...