Cornell University will celebrate another birthday this Saturday. 159 years ago, on April 27, 1865, New York Governor Reuben E. Fenton signed the bill chartering the University on Ezra Cornell’s ...
The University of Missouri has sold most of the remaining land taken from the Osage Nation two centuries ago to fund the then-fledgling university, according to recently discovered records. In one of ...
Prairie View A&M University scholars are available to provide expert insight on historic legislation and its ongoing impact. PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas, Sept. 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Prairie View A&M ...
On Aug. 30, the 135th anniversary of the Second Morrill Act of 1890 quietly passed, but the effects of this legislation still echo today across historically Black college and university campuses like ...
The North American Indigenous Student Organization is long past the time it can stand to watch the legacy of Justin S. Morrill, who passed the Morrill Act, be celebrated. In an Associated Students of ...
In 1862, in the midst of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Morrill Act and set off an education revolution. The Act established land-grant colleges across the country, democratizing ...
On Thursday, Tristan Ahtone discussed the connection between Indigenous land dispossession and the founding of land-grant universities.
At their most basic level, universities that operate under the Morrill Act's provisions have a three-fold mission: teaching, research and service. Teaching and research are the key functions, just as ...
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