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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 .
The Palisades Fire initially erupted Jan. 7 near Pacific Palisades, a partly coastal residential area in northwestern Los Angeles. It began as a brush fire near the site where an earlier fire ...
The Sunset Fire, which has consumed 60 acres of land, was discovered on Tuesday at around 6 p.m. local time, according to Cal Fire. The fire started in the Hollywood Hills region while it was ...
According to historian Robert Lee [1] and the other authors of the report "Land-Grab Universities, a High Country News Investigation" (2020), lands subject to the unratified treaties were taken by the United States government and sold to fund the land-grant universities established by the Morill Land-Grant Act of 1862. [2] [3]
The descendants of the Los Angeles Basin's first people had not had land of their own for nearly 200 years. Two years ago, a 1-acre property in suburban Altadena dotted with oak trees and shrubs ...