Sentences with phrase «land grant colleges»

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.

The year before the war, for example, Lincoln created the system of land grant colleges that would indelibly influence how Americans would be educated.

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.

In 1879, Iowa Agricultural College became the first land grant college to establish a school of veterinary medicine.

Let's start land grant colleges, because we want to give these gateways of opportunity for all Americans, because if all Americans are getting opportunity, we're all going to be better off.

Andy, look into agricultural research at Michigan State University, the original land grant college.

In short, outside of the land grant colleges and teachers colleges, that is, in the more prestigious forms of higher education, the primary models continued to be Paris and Berlin.

Its authors and chief commentators seem virtually not to know of The Federalist or Lincoln on «subsidiarity,» the Land Grant College Act, the Homestead Act, the First Amendment, the great writings of John Adams.

He created this academy, founded the land grant colleges, and began the work of the transcontinental railroad, believing that we must add — and I quote — «the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in the discovery... of new and useful things.»