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Download full textFranz, Nancy – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2014
The Cooperative Extension System was created in 1914 with the passage of the Smith-Lever Act. The act provided resources to improve access to education by creating this nationwide organization to bring land-grant university research and resources to people where they lived and worked. Cooperative Extension was the first formal nationwide structure…
Descriptors: Extension Education, Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Land Grant Universities
