What is a Land Grant University - Who Knew? Ep. 2

Episode two takes us back to the civil war when Abraham Lincoln signed the the Morrill Land-Grant Act into action, and with it Ohio State into existence.
This episode explains how the west campus towers got their name as well as the origins to mission statement of education, research, and service that Ohio State holds itself too. But also looks at how a 2020 news publishing shattered the idea of U.S. higher education and how Ohio State is trying to reckon with it.
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[@amylemmon4908]

Great reporting. Bravo!

[@jrlexjr]

From a podcast I recently did about Abram Winegardner Harris, who served as President of both UMaine and Northwestern. "The land grant colleges boosted the United States into a position of leader in technical education. Before the Civil War, American colleges primarily trained students in classical studies and the liberal arts. For the most part, only the relatively affluent could afford higher education, and entrance requirements often required proficiency in the dead languages of Latin and Ancient Greek. The first Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degrees, which typically required no Latin, did not come into being around 1850. American engineers were mostly educated at the United States Military Academy, so emphasis was on fortress construction, and their instructors were the authors of most engineering texts of the day. The Morrill Act changed all of that. Though the Congressional debates about the Act were largely focused on benefits to agriculture, the mechanical arts were specifically included in the Act's language, meaning applied sciences and engineering. The Act prohibited spending the endowment on constructing buildings as expensive and unnecessary, so instead the tools for engineering education increased, such as textbooks, laboratories and equipment. The number of engineers skyrocketed. In 1866 there were around 300 American men who had graduated with engineering degrees from only six reputable colleges which granted them. Just four years later there were 21 colleges offering engineering degrees and the total number of engineers graduated had tripled to 866. The following decade added another 2,249 engineers, and by 1911 the United States was graduating 3,000 engineers a year, with a total of 38,000 in the work force. At the same time, Germany was graduating 1,800 engineers per year. The US had become the leader in technical education just 50 years after passage of the Morrill Act." Podcast: Biographical Bytes from Bala #033: A Forgotten Education Pioneer.

[@sarahsummerhill2259]

Very informative and thorough. Thank you!

[@perennialbeachcomber.7518]

*@**8:06**--**8:15**: "We don't know what we don't know!"* [And if CRT is banned, we may never know. LoL.]

[@oac7184]

Amazing segment, clearly breaks down the article by HighCountryNews as well as pose thought provoking questions.

[@Calenrandir]

Excellent video. Thank you!

[@cierra9277]

Thanks for this work! Very helpful in understanding this topic.

[@forensicaccountant259]

Dr. King knew. Research what he said.

[@mrmrjims3865]

at leaT they paid back indeginous community not like Israel taking lamd and not paying to develop the Palestinian state