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Three decades later, having made the continental-scale purchase of the Louisiana Territory, he suggested 164-acre tracts be carved out and sold at $1.64 an acre and proposed a network of colleges to be built on grants donated by the federal government -- visionary proposals that would finally overcome conservative opposition to see fruition in the form of the Homestead Act and the Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act, both passed in the spring of 1862.

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Universities: Under the Morrill Land-Grant Act of 1862, the U.S. government gifted every state in the nation 30,000 acres of land as an endowment for an institution of higher education for the "agricultural and mechanical arts."

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The Morrill Land-Grant Act of 1862 sparked the growth of state institutions offering curricula in agriculture and the mechanical arts.

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The National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges and the American Association of State Colleges and Universities are creating a website, expected to launch in May, in which about 200 participating public institutions post data in a format that enables families to compare schools.

More colleges make consumer information public 2008

On July 7 followed the Land-Grant Act, which offered each state-present or future-huge tracts of free land to support a state university, where fees would be waived or kept to a minimum.

After The War: The Victories At Home 2008

And the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges and the American Association of State Colleges and Universities are developing a system of accountability that could be used by public four-year institutions.

Spellings outlines some education proposals 2006

My Grandfather -- who was the Dean of the Grad School in a neighboring state's Land-Grant institution -- always maintained that that's what led to UW's good reputation.

Blind item. Ann Althouse 2007

The 1862 passage of the Land-Grant Colleges Act brought education to the people by establishing universities in every state, geared toward providing not only liberal-arts education but training in pedagogy, agriculture, engineering, the law, medicine and other professions.

The Right To Learn 2007

Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities , was one of those asking the association to reconsider the policy.

NYT > Home Page By TAMAR LEWIN 2012

The mayor likened his plan to the Morrill Land-Grant Act, which paved the way for the founding of universities such as Cornell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of California at Berkley and the University of Michigan.

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