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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 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 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
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
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
Mission: Educational Training and Assistance 1. Agriculture 2. Home Economics (Family and Consumer Sciences) 3. 4-H Youth Development 4. Community Development
Home Demonstration Agents 1916: CA Purpose • Canning, jelly making • Nutrition • Home economy • Home management
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.
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
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
10 UC Campuses3 have extension responsibilities Davis Berkeley Riverside
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!
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!
Now: Designing Home - Community Interventions: Tracking Outcomes
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
Coming Soon! Healthy Families & Communities Special EditionJan-Mar 2013
Planning Birthday Celebration Need NFCS county photos & stories! cschneider@ucanr.edu
For being part of the UCCE family working to deliver a healthier California! Thank You!
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/