IV 
110TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 924 
Congratulating Iowa State University of Science and Technology for 150 
years of leadership and service to the United States and the world 
as Iowa’s land-grant university. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 16, 2008 
Mr. BRALEY of Iowa (for himself, Mr. LATHAM, Mr. BOSWELL, Mr. 
LOEBSACK, and Mr. KING of Iowa) submitted the following resolution; 
which was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor 
RESOLUTION 
Congratulating Iowa State University of Science and Tech-
nology for 150 years of leadership and service to the 
United States and the world as Iowa’s land-grant univer-
sity. 
Whereas Iowa State University of Science and Technology 
was established by the Iowa General Assembly on March 
22, 1858, as the Iowa Agricultural College and Model 
Farm in response to the State of Iowa’s desire to provide 
higher education opportunities to farm families and work-
ing classes in Iowa, predating the passage of the Federal 
Morrill Act by 4 years; 
Whereas on September 3, 1862, Iowa became the first State 
in the United States to accept the terms and conditions 
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of the Morrill Act creating the land-grant system of col-
leges and universities; 
Whereas the Iowa Agricultural College and Model Farm, 
known today as Iowa State University of Science and 
Technology, received Iowa’s land-grant charter on March 
29, 1864, making it one of the first land-grant institu-
tions in the United States; 
Whereas Iowa State University was a pioneer in all 3 parts 
of the land-grant mission, including— 
(1) allowing access to all, regardless of race, gender, 
or social class; 
(2) practical research; and 
(3) outreach; 
Whereas Iowa State University fulfilled the 3 parts of the 
land-grant mission by— 
(1) creating the first land-grant institution to be co-
educational from its opening, with 16 women in its first 
class; future suffragist Carrie Chapman Catt was an 
1880 graduate; and George Washington Carver was the 
first African-American student, earning a bachelor’s de-
gree in 1894 and a master’s degree in 1896, and was 
also the institution’s first African-American faculty mem-
ber; 
(2) establishing the United States’ first Engineering 
Experiment Station and domestic economy experimental 
kitchen, and one of the first agriculture experiment sta-
tions; and 
(3) organizing the Farmers Institutes in the winter 
of 1869, by Iowa State President Adonijah Welch, and 
organizing the nation’s first county Extension Service in 
1903 in Sioux County in northwest Iowa by Professor 
Perry Holden; 
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Whereas Iowa State has had a technology transfer office 
since 1935, longer than all but one other university in 
the United States, and is acknowledged today as a leader 
in putting technology to work, being cited as a ‘‘model 
of economic development’’ and ‘‘licensing powerhouse’’ in 
a 2007 study commissioned by the National Science 
Foundation; 
Whereas Iowa State University is today spearheading new ad-
vances in science and technology, including new mate-
rials, information sciences, green architecture, biological 
research, and the development of biorenewable fuels and 
other resources to support the bioeconomy and the Na-
tion’s independence from nonrenewable petroleum re-
sources; and 
Whereas more than 257,000 degrees have been awarded by 
Iowa State, and its graduates include heads of State, 
leaders of industry, great humanitarians, and gifted sci-
entists, whose work has improved the quality of life for 
people worldwide: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the United States House of Rep-
resentatives congratulates Iowa State University of 
Science and Technology for 150 years of outstanding serv-
ice to the State of Iowa, the United States, and the world 
in fulfilling its mission as a land-grant university; and 
thanks the State of Iowa for its visionary leadership in 
the beginning of the land-grant movement in the United 
States of America. 
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