1862 Land Grant Universities - Map

[89rabbit]

If you have ever wondered who are fellow Morrill Act Land Grant institutions are here is a map from the USDA that should help.

http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/technical/land/lgif/m2784l.gif

Our peer group is very impressive. 8)

Go State! ;D

[Texas_Jacks_Fan]

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Thankfully now ALL are Division 1 schools

[SDSUFAN]

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Thankfully now ALL are Division 1 schools

Not to be picky, but I believe Alaska Fairbanks is still D2 for all sports except Hockey, but that is the only one other than those in the territories and possessions. Those on the Lower 48 yes are 100% D1.

[Texas_Jacks_Fan]

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You are right SDSUFAN !! I stand corrected UA-F is DII

[90Jackrabbit]

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As a member of the SDSU Animal Science Meats Judging Team in the late eighties I had the great opportunity to travel to the campuses of U of Wyoming, Colorado State, U of Nebraka, Kansas State, Iowa State, U of Wisconsin, U of Illinois, and also Texas Tech Universty. We also competed against many of the schools on that map. For years SDSU has been competing against those schools academically, for graduate students, and for phds, and now it's nice to compete in athletic competiton. By the way, in the meat cooler you had to wear hard hats, and yes Penn State's were a plain white hard hat with a black stripe down the middle just like the football helmets.

[SiouxFallsJack]

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For years SDSU has been competing against those schools academically, for graduate students, and for phds, and now it's nice to compete in athletic competiton.

Right you are 90Jackrabbit, we have competed academically against those schools.

Isn't it great now we have the opportunity to compete with those same schools in athletics as well! 8)

[filbert]

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It can't be repeated often enough.

The 1862 Land Grant institutions are SDSU's peer group.

Academically, politically, and in the services they provide to their states, in every way imagineable.

That includes athletically. SDSU really had no business being in D-II in the first place. It was only the risk-averse attitude of some in the North Plains that kept SDSU back.

Go State!

[JACKGUYII]

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The only regret about going DI should be that it should have happened years ago along with the rest of our peers.

[Hawkeye_Jackrabbit]

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That is a very cool map. I am happy to say I'll be moving to a land grant university this summer ;D

[Texas_Jacks_Fan]

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I didnt realize that Cal-Berkely was California's Land Grant University. I always thought it was Cal-Poly. San Luis Obispo.
Much like 90Jackrabbit- I was on the Dairy Cattle judging team in the late 80's. We always competed against Cal Poly but never Cal. Most agriculture students and research comes from Poly or Cal-Davis. I wonder why this is??

[filbert]

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The history of land-grant colleges is pretty interesting. Up until the mid-1800's, colleges were very much for the upper class elites. The whole idea of the land-grant movement was to provide practical college education to the entire population of their respective states. They are intended to be very much the "people's colleges."

http://www.wvu.edu/~exten/about/land.htm

[OKC_Poke]

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I love the land grant map but, I'm surprised the University of Oklahoma is NOT a land grant college.

Could someone explain why for me if anyone can?

Thanks in advance.

On a seperate note, I'd like to see the Jacks play Wyoming in either basketball or football one day.

[Texas_Jacks_Fan]

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Poke,
SDSUFAN, could explain this better, But I'll give my very short version. The Morrill Act established one land grant school in each state. They were established to promote agriculture (extension) among several other purposes, and interact more closely with the citizens of their respective states. The Govt. at that time established OSU in Stillwater as Oklahoma's land grant school. That is why OSU has the vet school, and ag programs. Again this is very general info. and could be elaborated on by several of our posters.

[OKC_Poke]

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Poke,
SDSUFAN, could explain this better, But I'll give my very short version. The Morrill Act established one land grant school in each state. They were established to promote agriculture (extension) among several other purposes, and interact more closely with the citizens of their respective states. The Govt. at that time established OSU in Stillwater as Oklahoma's land grant school. That is why OSU has the vet school, and ag programs. Again this is very general info. and could be elaborated on by several of our posters.

Thanks, Texas. That explains a lot as to why OSU is the ag school and OU has the medical center. Which also explains CU and CSU over in Colorado!

[OK_Jackrabbit]

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Poke,
SDSUFAN, could explain this better, But I'll give my very short version. The Morrill Act established one land grant school in each state. They were established to promote agriculture (extension) among several other purposes, and interact more closely with the citizens of their respective states. The Govt. at that time established OSU in Stillwater as Oklahoma's land grant school. That is why OSU has the vet school, and ag programs. Again this is very general info. and could be elaborated on by several of our posters.

Also, the idea was to open up higher education to everyone, in contrast to the exclusionary admission policies of many universities at the time.