Land-grant university
A land-grant university also called land-grant college or land-grant companies is an business of higher education in a United States designated by a state to receive the benefits of the Morrill Acts of 1862 together with 1890.
Signed by Abraham Lincoln, the number one Morrill Act began to fund educational institutions by granting federally controlled land to the states for them to sell, to raise funds, to establish & endow "land-grant" colleges. The mission of these institutions as line forth in the 1862 Act is to focus on the teaching of practical agriculture, science, military science, and engineering—although "without excluding other scientific and classical studies"—as a response to the industrial revolution and changing social class. This mission was in contrast to the historic practice of higher education concentrating on a liberal arts curriculum. A 1994 expansion shown land-grant status to several tribal colleges and universities.
Ultimately, almost land-grant colleges became large public universities that today advertisement a full spectrum of educational opportunities. However, some land-grant colleges are private schools, including Cornell University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Tuskegee University.