Introduction
Morrill Land-Grant Acts (Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act) is a US law to create a land grant university.
process
According to the bill, Lianbangzhengfu to qualify the state to set aside 121 square kilometers (30,000 acres). These are the land or the money after the sale of land must be used for the building to teach agricultural and mechanical knowledge-based university. Although the law clause VI "All the rebel or government instigation of the United States State has no power to benefit from this bill," but at the end of the civil war as well as in all former members of the Commonwealth after 1862 have established states are satisfied that the bill on this entry range.
1890 Nian a second bill for former members of the League of Nations had with Congress. This bill requires the state must prove that the standard benefit race is not set up another school or colored race proprietary schools. The second bill because of some established schools in the last seventy now become a university (in the table below marked with an asterisk) has a black history. Although this new bill is to give money instead of land, the legal benefit of the school and the school prior to 1862 are the same; therefore these schools known as the land grant university.
In addition to certain exceptions, most of the beneficiaries are all public schools.
land grant university
The bill laid the foundation of today American higher education, public well-known private universities such as Michigan State University, Pennsylvania State University, Purdue University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, California University of Berkeley and so benefit from this system set up.
After the enactment of the bill, the states are beginning to operate the new public universities to develop education. Many states have their own State before the enactment of the land, the big names of these states to University of + state or place names, such as the famous University of California, California, Michigan University of Michigan, the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington and the North University of North Carolina Carolina (where there are exceptions, such as the University of Chicago, New York University and Pennsylvania state University names like large public, in fact, private universities). Because of these universities can not have enough land, and therefore of limited size. And after the enactment of the Land Law Morrill, a large number of new state university system began to develop rapidly. The names of these universities for the State + State University, State University that is certain to form the State University System of large scale far exceeding the state. These State University and later gradually absorbed most of the school-age students in the United States, individual states to solve the problem most students go to school, make an irreplaceable contribution to higher education in the United States. Known as Michigan State University, Michigan State University (established in 1855, adopted the nation's first Morrill Land-Grant Acts established State University), Rutgers University, New Jersey (State University of New Jersey), Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania Ohio State University, Ohio, is to become the backbone of American higher education, world-class research center.