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Cornell University (designated on April 27, 1865) [5] (Cornell is a private university with four statutory colleges, supported by the State of New York; however all of its colleges help to fulfill its land-grant mission.) The original land-grant designee was the People's College in Havana, New York, from 1863 to 1865. [20]
Logo for the centennial of land-grant universities. A land-grant university (also called land-grant college or land-grant institution) is an institution of higher education in the United States designated by a state to receive the benefits of the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890, [1] or a beneficiary under the Equity in Educational Land-Grant Status Act of 1994. [2]
Morrill Land-Grant Acts; Other short titles: Land-Grant Agricultural and Mechanical College Act of 1862: Long title: An Act donating Public Lands to the several States and Territories which may provide Colleges for the Benefit of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts. Nicknames: Morrill Act of 1862: Enacted by: the 37th United States Congress ...
Pages in category "Universities and colleges in Los Angeles County, California" The following 88 pages are in this category, out of 88 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Rancho geography remains readily visible in this L.A. County map created the year before the establishment of neighboring Orange County (1888) Federal Writers' Project map of the ranchos of Los Angeles County (1937); appears to be in the same style as many American Guide Series maps so possibly produced but not used for Los Angeles: A Guide to the City and Its Environs
This became the Southern Branch of the University of California in 1919 and moved to its present site on the west side of Los Angeles in 1929. Pacific Union College is founded as Healdsburg Academy in Healdsburg, California and moved to Angwin, California in 1909. Pacific Union College is the only college in Napa County.
Location of Los Angeles County in California. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Los Angeles County, California.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Los Angeles County, California, excluding the cities of Los Angeles and Pasadena.
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) [1] is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, United States.Its academic roots were established in 1881 as a normal school then known as the southern branch of the California State Normal School which later evolved into San José State University.