June 20, 2011
Reaching a Milestone, Land-Grant Universities Examine Their Mission, in the Past and in the Future
With the 150th anniversary of the Morrill Act next year, lots of higher-education leaders are praising the legacy of the law that created the nation's land-grant universities. There is, however, considerably less enthusiasm from them when considering the future of those institutions.
A two-day conference starting Wednesday will feature more than a dozen speakers and panelists detailing how the universities—which began as centers of agricultural and engineering expertise for a
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