1885 1887 1889 1891 1894 1917 1926 1931 1959-60 1891 1915 1939 1941 State legislature authorized State board of agriculture to seek do- The North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts State legislature (amendment to ch. 410, Laws of 1887) accepted Name changed to North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Ph. D. degree first conferred Designated as one of the three units in the consolidated University of North Carolina Amount of 1862 land-grant endowment fund-$125,000; income$7,500 The Agricultural and Technical College of North Carolina State legislature accepted provisions of Second Morrill Act Agricultural and Mechanical College for the Colored Race Operated as an annex to Shaw University at Raleigh 1891 to 1893 State authorized granting master of science degrees North Dakota 1889 1890 North Dakota State University In State enabling act—a grant of 90,000 acres of land in lieu of grants to other States under First Morrill Act and 40,000 acres in addition to be used for the same purpose (February 22) State legislature established an agricultural college at Fargo on land provided for that purpose in the State enabling act (March 22) 1891 1892 1895 1899 1918 1954 1959 Opened for instruction in rented quarters (October 15) Master of science degrees first awarded Master's of science degrees first awarded 1960 1959-60 Graduate school formally established (July 1) Board of Higher Education authorized granting of Ph. D. degrees (January 16) Name changed to North Dakota State University (November 8) Amount of 1862 land-grant endowment fund-$2,275,828; income$89,190 Unsold-13,172 acres; value $131,718 Ohio 1864 1870 1873 1878 1879 1881 1891 1959-60 The Ohio State University General Assembly accepted provision of First Morrill Act and Name changed to The Ohio State University Baccalaureate degrees first granted First awarded Ph. D. degrees, being second of the land-grant colleges to grant this degree Master's degrees first awarded State accepted provisions of Second Morrill Act (May 4) Amount of 1862 land-grant endowment fund-$524,177; income$31,451 First legislature of the territory of Oklahoma chartered Oklahoma Territorial legislature accepted provisions of Second Morrill Act Baccalaureate degree first granted 1906 State enabling act specified "one-third of the thirteenth section grant (100,000 acres) for the colored agricultural and normal university, and for the Agricultural and Mechanical College alone, 250,000 acres of land in place. While these grants were not in lieu of the grants to other States under the First Morrill Act of 1862, they have been administered in the same fashion" (June 16) Master's degrees first awarded Doctor of education degrees first conferred 1912 1942 1948 Doctor of philosophy degrees first conferred 1957 Name changed to Oklahoma State University of Agriculture and 1858 1859 1865 1868 1870 1876 1885 1891 1935 1953 1961 1959-60 Oregon State University Corvallis Corvallis College incorporated as a private institution Oregon became a State (February 14) First instruction at college level Legislature "designated and adopted" Corvallis College as the "agricultural college of the State of Oregon" and the recipient of the land grant (90,000 acres of land) (October 27) Baccalaureate degrees first granted Legislature "permanently adopted" Corvallis College as "the agricultural college of Oregon" (October 21) Master's degrees first awarded State took over Corvallis College and reorganized it under the name State accepted provisions of Second Morrill Act (February 19) Act of State legislature made official "Oregon State College" the Amount of 1862 land-grant endowment fund-$246,865; income- Unsold-182 acres; value-$182 Pennsylvania 1854 1855 1857 1859 1861 1862 1863 1867 1871 1874 1891 1926 1934 The Pennsylvania State University Legislature passed an act authorizing establishment of "an institu- Legislature repealed 1854 legislation in an act establishing the institution as the Farmer's High School under a new charter (February 22) State first appropriated funds ($50,000) toward building of Old Main (May 20) School opened with 119 students enrolled. Instruction at college level from beginning. Some students admitted with sophomore standing (February 16) Baccalaureate degrees (bachelor of scientific agriculture) granted to graduating class, the first class to complete its course in a land-grant college. The B.S.A. degree is described in an early catalog as one which "will be conferred on students who shall have completed full course of study, and passed an examination, and have written an original dissertation, approved by the faculty, upon some scientific or literary subject" (December 18) Name changed to Agricultural College of Pennsylvania (May 1) First granted master's degree, sharing with Rutgers University the honor of being second among the land-grant colleges to grant this degree. The degree was the M.S.A. (master of scientific and practical agriculture) described by President Evan Pugh in the 1861 catalog as follows: "This degree will be conferred upon Bachelor's of three years' standing who shall during this time have manifested a continuing interest in agriculture or the industrial arts, or devoted the time to any intellectual pursuit, after leaving the institution. Gradutes who shall remain one year at the institution, and devote the time to scientific investigation, shall receive the M.S.A. degree at the termination of that time." This statement stipulating one year of residence work in scientific investigation may have anticipated procedures supposedly first adopted in 1869 at Harvard (January 6). Legislature accepted provisions of First Morrill Act, and land-grant of 780,000 acres in scrip (April 1) Agricultural College of Pennsylvania designated as the “land-grant” institution to receive total income from endowment (February 19) Women students first admitted Became Pennsylvania State College (January 26) Legislature accepted provisions of Second Morrill Act (May 20) First granted Ph. D. degrees Undergraduate centers (4) established, offering 2-year curriculum 1953 1959-60 Name changed to Pennsylvania State University Amount of 1862 land-grant endowment fund-$500,000; income$25,000 Puerto Rico University of Puerto Rico 1900 1903 1908 1910 1911 1912 1914 1929 1960 Established as Normal School at Fajardo Chartered and name changed to University of Puerto Rico at Rio Benefits of acts of 1890 and 1907 extended to Puerto Rico First instruction at college level College of Agriculture organized at Mayaguez Became College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (the Mayaguez campus of the University of Puerto Rico) Baccalaureate degree first granted Master's degree first awarded Provisions of Bankhead-Jones Act extended to Puerto Rico Rhode Island 1863 1888 1892 1894 University of Rhode Island State legislature accepted provisions of First Morrill Act, and received 120,000 acres in scrip. Brown University was designated as the beneficiary on condition that it fulfill the State's obligations under the terms of the act (January). The terms of the agreement provided that the university would "educate scholars each at the rate of $100 per annum (reduced to $75 per annum at the January session 1884) to the extent of the entire annual income from said proceeds," subject to the proviso that "the Governor and Secretary of State have the right, on or before Commencement Day of each year and in connection with the President of the University, to nominate candidates for the vacancies occurring in said college." Legislature chartered State agricultural school at Kingston (March 23) State accepted provisions of Second Morrill Act, changed name of institution at Kingston to Rhode Island College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, and transferred the benefits of the landgrant endowment to this institution (May 19). Brown University contested the transfer and it was not until compromise legislation was enacted in 1894 (April 19-20) that the College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts received these funds Baccalaureate degrees first granted |