She landed a job in 1986 at North Carolina State University, a sprawling land-grant school founded almost a century earlier.

Eleven years later, the site was chosen as the location for the proposed A&M College of Texas, a land-grant school.

They reach out to a band of legislators who represent the area, graduated from Cornell or work with the land-grant schools.

As was common with most land-grant schools, its teams were known for many years as Aggies.

In 1895, Maryland Agricultural, a land-grant school with a military curriculum requirement, had a new commandant of cadets take office.

Like all land-grant schools, Rutgers has to balance competing demands: to serve the state and to cultivate a larger reputation.

It was one of several AM stations signed on by Midwestern land-grant schools in the early days of radio.

Established in 1887 by the New Mexico legislature, it is the only land-grant school for the deaf in the United States.

Southern became a land-grant school in 1890, and an Agricultural and Mechanical department was established.

The Morrill Act, which provided the land-grant schools, became law that same year.