For land grant colleges and universities to shift from a primary focus on the service of the state to a focus on service of the market was an easy transition. (religion-online.org)
The year before the war, for example, Lincoln created the system of land grant colleges that would indelibly influence how Americans would be educated. (science.sciencemag.org)
While the choice of Clovis is clearly a break from past administrations, the most important qualification may be a good understanding of agriculture and the workings of the federal land grant college system, where much of the publicly supported research is done, said Lee Van Wychen, science policy director for the Weed Science Society of America. (sciencemag.org)