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2000s
El laboratorio de química de la Universidad de Dakota
del Norte con cinco estudiantes hombres uniformados y un profesor, hacia 1897
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La Universidad Comunitaria del Valle del Hudson (SUNY), antes el Instituto Técnico del Valle del Hudson, recibió su pimera mujer estudiante en 1955. Aquí una estudiante opera un torno, a fines de los 1950.
La Fundación W.K. Kellogg patrocinó la Iniciativa India en la Educación Superior. Aquí una Univeridad Tribal India celebra la ceremonia de graduación.
1800s
MARZO 4, 1801 Thomas Jefferson, egresado de la Universidad William y Mary, se inaugura como Presidente de los Estados Unidos.
MAYO 7, 1847 La asamblea legislativa del estado de Nueva York aprueba una propuesta de ley que vuelve realidad la Academia Libre (predecesora del City College of NewYork). Esta llegaría a ser la primera institución de estudios superiores en la nación.
JULIO 26, 1848 Se funda la Universidad de Wisconsin.
FEBRERO 28, 1850 Se funda la Universidad de Utah.
ENERO 24, 1851 Se funda la Universidad del Estado de la Florida.
FEBRERO 25, 1851 Se funda la Universidad de Minnesota.
JANUARY 6, 1853 The East Florida Seminary opens in Ocala with public funding; this institution grows into the University of Florida.
FEBRUARY 22, 1855 The Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania (later Penn State University) is chartered at the request of the Pennsylvania Agricultural Society to apply scientific principles to farming. In 1862 it is designated as the Commonwealth's sole land-grant institution.
SEPTEMBER 24, 1855 The University of Iowa is the first state university to admit women and men on an equal basis.
MARCH 6, 1856 The University of Maryland is founded as the Maryland Agricultural College and became a land-grant school in February 1864.
AUGUST 1, 1856 East Alabama Male College (now Auburn University) is chartered. In 1872, it became the first land-grant college in the South and was renamed the Agriculture and Mechanical College of Alabama.
AUGUST 26, 1857 Thomas W. Valentine, the president of the New York Teachers Association, invites fellow educators to organize a National Teachers Association. This precursor to the National Education Association (NEA) is founded in Philadelphia.
NOVEMBER 4, 1861 The University of Washington is founded in Seattle as the Territorial University of Washington.
JULY 2, 1862 During the Civil War, President Lincoln signs the Morrill Act, which establishes land-grant institutions that are public and free to teach agriculture and the mechanic arts, as well as scientific and classical studies and military tactics. Each eligible state (excluding those in the Confederacy) received 30,000 acres of federal land for each member of Congress, as of the census of 1860.
El Club de Mandolina en la Universidad de Oklahoma, Norman, Okla., hacia 1900.
Lloyd Gaines, aquí retratado en 1938, egresado de la Universidad de Lincoln (Missouri), solicitó admisión a la escuela de derecho de la Universidad de Missouri y se le negó en base a su raza. La Corte Suprema luego dictaminó que se admitiera a Gaines, pero había desaparecido y nunca lo hallaron.
El Dr. Richard Dewalen de la
Universidad de Minnesota con un oxigenador de burbuja, o pulmón-corazón mecánico, utilizado durante cirugía cardíaca, 1956.
APRIL 28, 1863 The University of Massachusetts (Amherst) is chartered as a land-grant agricultural college.
FEBRUARY 22, 1865 The University of Kentucky is founded as a land-grant institution as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of the Kentucky University. That same year it merged with Transylvania University, which had been founded in 1783.
1866 The New Jersey State Legislature picks Rutgers Scientific School over Princeton University to be the state land-grant college. The Dutch Reformed Church also severs its last ties with Rutgers. Both events paved the way for Rutgers' eventual role as the state university of New Jersey.
JULY 7, 1866 The New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts (later the University of New Hampshire) is founded in Hanover, N.H..
FEBRUARY 7, 1867 The University of West Virginia is founded as the Agricultural College of West Virginia.
FEBRUARY 28, 1867 The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, receives its charter from the Illinois state legislature as the Illinois Industrial University, although its first president, John Milton Gregory, establishes a strong liberal arts tradition.
MARCH 23, 1868 University of California is chartered by the state legislature through the "Organic Act." Opened in Oakland in 1869, its first class contained 40 students. Women were first admitted in 1870. The twelve members of the first graduating class of 1873 were known as the "Twelve Apostles."
OCTOBER 27, 1868 Corvallis College (Oregon) is designated as the agricultural college of the state of Oregon and begins receiving partial state support derived from the sale of 90,000 acres in southeast Oregon. Corvallis College is later renamed Corvallis State Agricultural College and eventually Oregon State University.
1869 The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, establishes the first laboratory for botany students in America.
FEBRUARY 15, 1869 The University of Nebraska receives its charter from the state legislature as a land-grant school.
MARCH 4, 1869 Ulysses S. Grant, a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., is inaugurated as president of the United States.
NOVEMBER 6, 1869 Rutgers defeats Princeton 6 to 4 in the first intercollegiate football game.
FEBRUARY 14, 1870 Normal College (Hunter College) becomes the first publicly supported tuition-free institution of higher education for women in the United States.
MAY 13, 1871 Alcorn State University in Mississippi is founded as Alcorn University. The state gave Alcorn 3/5 of the proceeds of the land sales for agricultural and mechanical studies. Alcorn became the first land-grant institution established for African-American students.
1872 The National Education Association creates a department of higher education along with a separate department of normal schools.
El Pabellón Clark en la Universidad de Alabama, hacia 1900.
Vista aérea en una postal de la Universidad de Kentucky, Lexington, hacia 1900.
Henry Howard Finnell, agrónomo y especialista en erosión en la Universidad del Estado de Oklahoma, ofreció soluciones prácticas como contornos en los campos agrícolas y fue un innovador en las prácticas de conservación del suelo para confrontar los problemas ocurrieron durante el Cuenco de Polvo, hacia 1940.
JANUARY 22, 1872 University of Arkansas opens.
MAY 1, 1875 The Huntsville Normal School opens (now named Alabama A & M University) and is led by William Hooper Council, a former slave.
1876 The United States Office of Education is established.
FEBRUARY 15, 1876 Texas Permanent University Fund (PUF) is established in the Texas Constitution.
MARCH 14, 1876 The University of Colorado is founded.
JUNE 10, 1876 The University of Illinois establishes the Morrow Plots, the first experimental agricultural fields in the United States to yield important data on crop rotation and natural soil nutrient depletion.
OCTOBER 4, 1876 Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College (Texas A & M) opens its doors, the first public school of higher education in Texas.
Estudiantes neófitos toman parte en un ritual anual en el recinto de la Universidad Oriental de Washington, “Pasando por los Pilares”, saludando a otros estudiantes, al profesorado, y al personal, hacia 2005.
El laboratorio de química de la Universidad de Dakota del Norte con cinco estudiantes hombres uniformados y un profesor, hacia 1897.
Monumento de Maíz de la Universidad de Iowa para la fiesta estudiantil con asistencia de exalumnos, Iowa City, Iowa, 1925.
OCTOBER 16, 1876 The University of Oregon is founded.
JULY 4, 1881 Booker T. Washington founds the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama. The state of Alabama charters the school as a land-grant college.
SEPTEMBER 28, 1881 Storrs Agriculture School (which officially became the University of Connecticut in 1939) opens in a former Civil War orphanage donated by Charles and Augustus Storrs, along with 170 acres of farmland and $5,000 to purchase equipment and supplies.
JANUARY 14, 1882 The American Association of University Women is founded in Washington, D.C., as the Association of Collegiate Alumnae.
Laboratorio de Ingeniería Textil en la Universidad Texas Tec, en los1930.
Ronald Martin, Robert Patterson, y Mark Martin, estudiantes de A&T Carolina del Norte Greensboro, conducen una sentada luego de que se les negó el servicio en una barra de almuerzo de F.W. Woolworth en Greensboro, C.N, 1960.
Universidad de Tennessee, Knoxville, 1886.
SEPTEMBER 15, 1883 The University of Texas is opened in Austin.
MARCH 12, 1885 Arizona State University is founded as the territorial normal school.
1887 The Association of Public Land Grant Universities (formerly the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges) is founded.
MARCH 2, 1887 Hatch-George Act provides federal funding for agricultural research stations at land-grant institutions.
NOVEMBER 15, 1887 American Association of Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations holds its first conference.
La Biblioteca Zimmerman del recinto de la Universidad de Nuevo México, construida como un proyecto de la Administración de Obras Públicas, 1939.
Althea Moore y amigos, Ciudad Iowa, Iowa, hacia 1926. Althea “Bee” Moore fue una estudiante de pregrado en la Universidad de Iowa (entonces la Universidad Estatal de Iowa).
La Fundación W.K. Kellogg patrocinó la Iniciativa India en la Educación Superior. Aquí una Univeridad Tribal India celebra la ceremonia de graduación.
MARCH 4, 1889 Benjamin Harrison, a graduate of Miami University (Ohio), is inaugurated as president of the United States.
MARCH 20, 1890 University of Wisconsin Professor Stephen Babcock invents famous butterfat test and helps develop cold-curing process giving birth to cheese industry in Wisconsin.
AUGUST 30, 1890 Congress passes the 1890 Morrill Act, creating African-American land-grant colleges and universities.
OCTOBER 14, 1890 Dwight David Eisenhower, the 34th president of the United States and a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, is born.
MAY 19, 1892 The State Agricultural School (Rhode Island) is renamed the Rhode Island College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts and opens that year with new funding from the second Morrill Land-Grant Act.
SEPTEMBER 10, 1895 The University of Montana, Missoula, is founded.
La Universidad de Washington pone gran énfasis en darles oportunidades a los estudiantes para aprender con experimentos. Aquí una estudiante de UW observa una prueba con un deslizador marino en el laboratorio de oceanografía en 2009.
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