Land Grant UniversitiesCelebrating 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.

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

1908 CA Birth of Demonstration Education

Teach Children to Teach Adults

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

1914 Smith-Lever Act: Cooperative Extension

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

Extension Part of War Efforts

Women’s Land Army

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

Berkeley

Davis

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!

Developing Gardens - Then

Now: Developing Gardens

Designing homemaking interventions- Then

Now: Designing Home - Community Interventions: Tracking Outcomes

Then: Nutrition Education

Now: NE– Evaluation & Research

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!

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/