1. DASNR and The Land Grant Mission

2. Justin S. Morrill Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862 A system to provide funds to establish, support and maintain at least one college in each state to teach agriculture, mechanical arts and military sciences. “ Liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions of life. ”

3. William Henry Hatch Hatch Act of 1887 Provided federal funding for state experiment stations Purpose was to conduct research to improve production agriculture

4. Smith-Lever Act of 1914 Established Cooperative Extension Service Purpose was to provide and extension of the land grant college to local communities Placed “ agents ” of the university in local counties

5. Legislation Forming the Land Grants Three Missions TEACHING – MORRILL ACT CASNR - COLLEGE RESEARCH – HATCH ACT OAES – EXPERIMENT STATION EXTENSION – SMITH/LEVER ACT OCES – COOPERATIVE EXTENSION

6. Morrill Act of 1890 Provided funding for agricultural and mechanical colleges for black citizens in Southern states Same basic provisions as 1862 act

7. 1890 Land Grants Prairie View A&M Langston Lincoln UA Pine Bluff Kentucky State Virginia State NC A&T Tenn State Southern Alcorn Tuskegee Ala A&M Ft. Valley State Florida A&M SC State Delaware State U M Eastern Shore

8. What are the Land Grants of the Big XII? The Athletic Logo – Registered Brand of OAES

9. OSU Seals

12. 1890 Oklahoma Agricultural &Mechanical College

13. 1894 Oklahoma A&M

14. Old Central 1894

15. Oklahoma State University Can you name the campuses? What are the nine colleges? An 1862 institution multi-campus system 9 different colleges

16. DASNR listed at bottom of okstate.edu

17. ORGANIZATION STATE LEGISLATURE OK HIGHER REGENTS – Chancellor Glen Johnson OK A&M REGENTS – Chairman Tucker Link PRESIDENT – President Burns Hargis V.P., DEAN & DIRECTOR AGENCIES AND COLLEGE DEPARTMENTS

18. Vice-President (Dean & Director) (CEO) Assoc. Director OAES Jonathan Edelson Assoc. Director OCES Jim Trapp Unit Administrators Assoc. Dean CASNR Cynda Clary

19. Nine Academic Departments 1.Agricultural Economics 2.Agricultural Education, Communications and Leadership 3.Animal Science 4.Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 5.Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering 6.Entomology and Plant Pathology 7.Horticulture and Landscape Architecture 8.Natural Resource Ecology and Management 9.Plant and Soil Sciences

20. Other DASNR Programs Family and Consumer Sciences 4-H Youth Development Food and Agricultural Products Center Field and Research Services Units Water Research and Extension Center NIMFFAB Institute for Agricultural Biosciences Biobased Products and Energy Center

21. Questions to Ponder 1.What does it mean to have a degree from a LGU? 2.What is expected of people who work at LGUs? 3.Who do land grant colleges serve? 4.Who do experiment stations serve? The public? Private entities? 5.What is Extension’s role? 6.Are outreach and Extension the same thing?