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John, Walton C., Ed. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1925
This survey of land-grant college education is divided into five sections, published separately as follows: Part I: History and Educational Objectives of Land-Grant College Education; Part II: The Liberal Arts and Sciences and Miscellaneous Subjects in Land-Grant Colleges; Part III: Agricultural Education in Land-Grant Colleges; Part IV:…
Descriptors: Sciences, Physical Education, Extension Education, Agricultural Education
Institutions in the United States Giving Instruction in Agriculture, 1915-16. Bulletin, 1917, No. 34
Monahan, A. C., Comp.; Dye, C. H., Comp. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1917
This bulletin contains lists of institutions, colleges, normal schools, private secondary schools, special agricultural schools, and public high schools giving instructions in agriculture. While every precaution has been taken to make the information complete, it is by no means certain that every institution properly belonging in the lists is…
Descriptors: Educational History, Agricultural Education, Agricultural Colleges, Teacher Education Programs
Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1929
This report contains statistics of 339 institutions which are engaged primarily in the preparation of teachers for positions in elementary and high schools. These institutions are classified as teachers colleges, State normal schools, city normal schools, county normal schools, and private normal schools. In order to make the report as complete as…
Descriptors: Schools of Education, Teacher Education Programs, High Schools, Certification
Klein, Arthur J. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1920
A very large and important part of the extension work of universities, colleges, and departments of education is done through correspondence, thus giving to large numbers of men and women who cannot go to college or attend set courses of lectures an opportunity to profit by well-directed reading and study and by scholarly criticism. The purpose…
Descriptors: Educational History, Correspondence Study, Extension Education, College Programs
Ratcliffe, Ella B., Comp. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1926
This bulletin is the third which the Bureau of Education has published under the title "Accredited Higher Institutions." The first bulletin was published in 1917 and the second in 1922. The primary purpose in issuing the bulletin from time to time is to furnish to college officials, to State boards of education, and to teachers and students, lists…
Descriptors: Educational History, Higher Education, Accreditation (Institutions), Standards
Walton, C. John, Ed. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1925
This bulletin represents the third of a 5-part survey of land-grant college education. Other parts are: (1) History and Educational Objectives of Land-Grant College Education; (2) The Liberal Arts and Sciences and Miscellaneous Subjects in Land-Grant Colleges; (4) Engineering and Mechanic Arts in Land-Grant Colleges; and (5) Home Economics in…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agricultural Engineering, Agronomy, Forestry
Greenleaf, Walter J. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1929
By the Federal Land Grant Act of July 2, 1862, each State received a grant of land for the purpose of endowing at least one college of agriculture and mechanic arts. The second Morrill Act of 1890 provided for an annual appropriation to each State which was increased by the Nelson amendment of 1907. Since 1911 each State has received $50,000…
Descriptors: Agricultural Colleges, Land Grant Universities, Grants, Vocational Education
Evans, Henry R. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1922
The General Education Board has, since its foundation in 1902, to July 1, 1921, appropriated $88,125,444.56 for various phases of educational work, $80,408,344.99 of this having been paid to or set aside for colleges and other institutions for whites, $5,806,205.62 for institutions for Negroes, and $1,910,893.95 for miscellaneous objects. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Postsecondary Education, Income
Walton, C. John, Ed. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1925
This is the fourth part of a 5-part survey of land-grant college education. Other parts are: (1) History and Educational Objectives of Land-Grant College Education; (2) The Liberal Arts and Sciences and Miscellaneous Subjects in Land-Grant Colleges (3) Agricultural Education in Land-Grant Colleges (including agricultural engineering)(4); and Home…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Curriculum, Educational Trends, Educational Change
Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1928
This report contains statistics of 975 universities, colleges, junior colleges, and professional schools for the year 1925-26. The principal items included are institutions; faculty, students; degrees; property; receipts; and some comparisons with previous reports. Some highlights include the increase over 1924 of 33 junior colleges, and 11…
Descriptors: Educational History, Higher Education, Professional Education, Two Year Colleges
Greenleaf, Walter, J. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1929
More than 1,000 institutions of higher learning in the United States are now offering work of college grade to some 900,000 students. These institutions include regular 4-year colleges and universities, independent professional schools specializing in law, medicine, dentistry, theology, engineering, etc., 2-year junior colleges, colleges for…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, College Attendance, Personal Narratives, Enrollment
Wright, Edith A.; Phillips, Mary S. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1928
This document contains a list of the titles and authors of all the bulletins issued by the Bureau of Education from 1906 to 1927, inclusive. The index following the list is intended to assist teachers, students, and librarians in locating material on the various subjects. [Best copy available has been provided.]
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Publications, Printed Materials, Indexes
Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1921
This report presents the statistics of 672 universities, colleges, and professional schools for the school year 1917-18. Of this number, 118 institutions were independent professional schools, including 78 schools of theology, 12 schools of law, 9 schools of medicine, 4 schools of veterinary medicine, 8 schools of dentistry, and 7 schools of…
Descriptors: Educational History, Higher Education, Professional Education, Two Year Colleges
Andrews, Benjamin F. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1918
The act of July 2, 1862, "donating public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts," led to the establishment of a group of higher institutions, at least one in each State, having direct relations with the Federal Government and dedicated to a common…
Descriptors: Educational History, Professional Training, Curriculum Development, Program Implementation
Klein, Arthur J. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1929
Anyone who has taken the pains to follow educational direction and administrative action during the past two years will recognize that one of the most important current tendencies in higher education is the desire to obliterate the sharp distinction between college life and life thereafter. The educational program is being directed to service…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Intercollegiate Cooperation, Social Life, College Preparation