Talk:Land-grant university

message: 3-2-04
I am trying to determine the historical relationship between "normal schools" and "land- grant universities"; for instance, Illinois State vs. Univ of Ill. Specifially, I'm wondering if it's possible to say that all or most normal schools were not land-grant universities. Can this be addressed in this article; or a new article written for "normal schools"? Or, just help in researching this would be appreciated. :-)
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Shouldn't this be renamed land-grant university?  "Land-grant" by itself doesn't mean "land-grant university," does it?  (I don't know, maybe it does.)
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I wrestled with that myself, LS.  I settled on land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant because both colleges and universities were involved and because I knew that if that didn't seem correct, you or Jimbo would make a more appropro suggestion.  As far as I can tell (I performed a few searches on Google to double check myself and then read through the relevant Acts on Thomas), land-grant, sea-grant and space-grant issues refer to colleges and universities.  However, my encyclopedic knowledge is limited and Wikipedia is my adventure in learning about a different style of writing and editing.  So, if you've a better suggestion, I'll defer. :-)  -Invictus
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Well, it's up to whoever can convince the others that he knows what he's talking about.  :-) --LS
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The Morrill Act specifically aimed at "practical" , not "liberal" arts, although its fine print did allow the so-created colleges to teach other stuff.  Hence, I deleted the "liberal" reference (which the original writer tried to make read "liberal arts" according to the copy.  The lack of space between "college' and "education" I can't seem to correct, as it goes between two lines of text on the work page.Sfahey 16:19, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Older comments

message: The list of universities at the bottom of the article is very redundant with the university template also displayed at the bottom. I would edit and remove it myself, but I figured I should ask first in case there's something I'm missing. Thanks. --DiGiT
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FWIW, Big 12 Conference, Ivy League, etc. also have their respective templates at the bottom.... Cburnett 20:34, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of Universities (27/11/2004) 

message: I count at least 13 universities with all three of these designations:
* University of Alaska Fairbanks
* Cornell University
* University of Delaware
* University of Hawaii at Manoa
* Louisiana State University
* University of Maine
* Massachusetts Institute of Technology
* University of Minnesota
* University of New Hampshire
* Oregon State University
* University of Puerto Rico
* Purdue University
* Texas A&M University
I will change appropriate references at the three relevant pages to reflect this number.  Any others? btm 08:13, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd love to know if there are some other references besides btm's own research. For example, the LSU article states there are 21. Earthsound 20:36, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Land, Sea and Space Grants

message: Question posed by 67.82.113.64: "Why is Rutgers the 'oldest' if Michigan State was 'chartered' first in 1855?"
Rutgers was founded first, then received a land grant later.  Michigan State was the first to be founded with a land grant in its charter. Kevin Forsyth (talk) 16:17, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  First? 

message: everytime i come to this stupid website it dont give me no answers so bye fudge packers  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.136.0.194 (talk) 13:19, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: First sentence or paragraph does not say what these universities do. The single characteristic which distinguishes these universities from any other university is described unmeaningfully by the proper name "Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890". Further reading reveals that, not only is the description insufficient and "Morrill Acts" does not correspondend to "land-grant", but it is in fact false, as there existed universities founded before the Acts existed, and later universities were founded under different legislative acts. —Centrx→talk • 05:25, 1 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  mad 

message: Added to "History" that WVSU is the only land-grant university to surrender its land-grant status as well as being the smallest in the country. Seems important enough to at least have a sentence since it is the only one to surrender its status as well as being the smallest. 129.71.208.91 (talk) 13:57, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  WVSU 

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message: Wikipedia seems to have no content about the general history of the use of the term "Agricultural and Mechanical" in the names of colleges -- only articles about assorted individual US institutions, such as Texas A&M. It would be interesting to know when and where the term originated, how it spread, and how it is dying out. What most similar terms have been used in other countries?-73.61.15.196 (talk) 14:08, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Agricultural and Mechanical College" 

message: The heading, "State Law Precedents" does not really belong in this article, in my opinion. This little section mentions a few institutions that were established on lands awarded by state legislatures years -- or decades -- before the Morrill Acts. If we're to keep this, we'd have to list dozens more that fall into this category--but since this article is about the land-grant institutions that arose from the federal acts, I recommend deleting "State Law Precedents" here. I've tried to clean this subheading up for now. What do others think?Kfhtoll (talk) 19:14, 4 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: State Law Precedents

message: The appropriation of 'Indian Lands' has been the subject of some controversy. See:
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/great-university-land-grab  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.150.38.110 (talk) 13:23, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Controversy: Seizure of Indian Lands 

message: is there anything about a land grant school that differs today from non land grant schools? If there is nothing to point to, shouldn't all those articles across wikipedia that mention it in the lede instead relegate it to the history section? it just seems so wasteful, like saying "this university has had sunny days, and cloudy days." 2603:8001:D3F0:87E0:0:0:0:10D0 (talk) 22:48, 22 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  isn't "land grant university" more meaningless than anything?