Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act

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The Morrill Land-Grant Acts are pieces of US legislation that allowed for the creation of land-grant colleges, which would be funded by the grant of federally-controlled land to each of the states which had stayed with the United States during the American Civil War.

The Morrill Act was first proposed by Representative Justin Smith Morrill of Vermont in 1857 and was passed by Congress in 1859, but it was vetoed by President James Buchanan. In 1861 Morrill resubmitted the act with the amendment that the proposed institutions would teach military tactics as well as engineering and agriculture. This reconfigured Morrill Act was signed into law by President Lincoln on July 2, 1862.

Under the act, each eligible state received a total of 30,000 acres (121 km²) of federal land, either within or contiguous to its boundaries, for each member of congress the state had as of the census of 1860. This land, or the proceeds from its sale, was to be used toward establishing and funding the educational institutions described above.

A second Morrill Act followed in 1890 aiming to include the former Confederate states in the program. This act also required each state to show that race was not an admissions criterion, or else to designate a separate land-grant institution for persons of color. Among the seventy colleges and universities which eventually evolved from the Morrill Acts are several of today's historically black colleges.

See also: National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, Hatch Act of 1887, Smith Lever Act of 1914, US Department of Agriculture, USDA Cooperative State Research Service

Morrill Land Grant Colleges and Universities

ALABAMA

• Alabama A&M University
• Auburn University
• Tuskegee University

ALASKA

• University of Alaska System

AMERICAN SAMOA

• American Samoa Community College

ARIZONA

• University of Arizona

ARKANSAS

• University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
• University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff

CALIFORNIA

• University of California

COLORADO

• Colorado State University

CONNECTICUT

• Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
• University of Connecticut

DELAWARE

• Delaware State University
• University of Delaware

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

• University of the District of Columbia

FLORIDA

• Florida A&M University
• University of Florida

GEORGIA

• Fort Valley State University
• University of Georgia

GUAM

• University of Guam

HAWAII

• University of Hawaii

IDAHO

• University of Idaho

ILLINOIS

• University of Illinois

INDIANA

• Purdue University

IOWA

• Iowa State University

KANSAS

• Kansas State University

KENTUCKY

• Kentucky State University
• University of Kentucky

LOUISIANA

• Louisiana State University System
• Southern University and A&M College

MAINE

• University of Maine

MARYLAND

• University of Maryland Eastern Shore
• University of Maryland, College Park

MASSACHUSETTS

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• University of Massachusetts, Amherst

MICHIGAN

• Michigan State University

MINNESOTA

• University of Minnesota

MISSISSIPPI

• Alcorn State University
• Mississippi State University

MISSOURI

• Lincoln University
• University of Missouri System

MONTANA

• Montana State University

NEBRASKA

• University of Nebraska

NEVADA

• University of Nevada, Reno

NEW HAMPSHIRE

• University of New Hampshire

NEW JERSEY

• Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

NEW MEXICO

• New Mexico State University

NEW YORK

• Cornell University

NORTH CAROLINA

• North Carolina A&T State University
• North Carolina State University

NORTH DAKOTA

• North Dakota State University

OHIO

• The Ohio State University

OKLAHOMA

• Langston University
• Oklahoma State University

OREGON

• Oregon State University

PENNSYLVANIA

• The Pennsylvania State University

PUERTO RICO

• University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez

RHODE ISLAND

• University of Rhode Island

SOUTH CAROLINA

• Clemson University
• South Carolina State University

SOUTH DAKOTA

• South Dakota State University

TENNESSEE

• Tennessee State University
• University of Tennessee

TEXAS

• Prairie View A&M University
• Texas A&M University

UTAH

• Utah State University

VERMONT

• University of Vermont

VIRGIN ISLANDS

• University of the Virgin Islands

VIRGINIA

• American Indian Higher Education Consortium
• Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech)
• Virginia State University

WASHINGTON

• Washington State University

WEST VIRGINIA

• West Virginia University
• West Virginia State University

WISCONSIN

• University of Wisconsin-Madison

WYOMING

• University of Wyoming

Please Note: of the 106 Land-Grant institutions, all but two (the Community College of Micronesia, and Northern Marianas College) are members of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC). The 31 tribal colleges of 1994 are represented as a system by the single membership of the American Indian Higher Education Consortium.

• SOURCE: National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges

External links

• Morrill Act and related resources at the Library of Congress