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Download full textGeneral Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Health, Education, and Human Services Div. – 1995
This report provides information on the amounts and sources of education funding for land-grant colleges, including historically black and tribal schools. A total of 107 land-grant schools were identified, including 59 institutions funded under the 1862 Morrill Act, 19 historically black land-grant institutions, and 29 tribal land-grant…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Black Colleges, Colleges, Educational History
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1995
This document presents the texts of selected titles, sections, and amendments of federal laws dealing with specific aspects of postsecondary education. It is divided into the following major parts: (1) "General Higher Education Programs"; (2) "Native American Higher Education"; (3) "National Science Foundation"; and…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indians, Educational Facilities, Educational Finance
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Health, Education, and Human Services Div. – 1996
This report describes amounts and sources of education funding for land-grant schools, especially programs funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and major funding sources for historically black or tribal land-grant schools. The report identifies and describes a total of 24 programs, with budget requests of $1.245.1 billion in fiscal year…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indians, Black Colleges, Black Education
Peer reviewedBigart, Robert – Tribal College, 1997
Discusses land-grant legislation of the past century and how it has, and will continue to, affect tribal colleges and rural America. (YKH)
Descriptors: Agricultural Colleges, Agricultural Education, American Indian Education, Black Colleges
Blauch, Lloyd E. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1933
During the past quarter of a century there have been rather continuous and persistent efforts for Federal aid to education. Twenty-one years ago the Congress of the United States enacted the Smith-Lever Agricultural Extension Act, and 3 years later it passed the Smith-Hughes Vocational Education Act. Under the Smith-Lever Act and subsequent…
Descriptors: Educational History, Federal Government, Federal Legislation, Extension Education
Greenman, Edward D. Comp.; Wright, Edith A. Comp. – United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1912
The importance of agriculture and home economics as subjects of study in school and college, and the frequent inquiries which come to the Bureau of Education regarding pedagogical literature on these subjects, have led to the preparation of the present bibliography, which is intended to be a convenient and practical guide to current sources of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Annotated Bibliographies, Agricultural Education
Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1927
This bulletin focuses on these topics: (1) Higher education; (2) Some recent movements in city school systems; (3) Constructive tendencies in rural education; (4) Medical education; (5) The progress of dental education; (6) Recent progress in legal education; (7) Art education in the United States; (8) Industrial education; (9) Agricultural…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Land Grant Universities, Special Education, Average Daily Attendance
