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To designate Central State University as Ohio's 1890 | 1 |
land grant university and to request that the | 2 |
United States Congress pass legislation and the | 3 |
United States Department of Agriculture take steps | 4 |
to recognize that designation and provide the | 5 |
institution with all of the benefits of the | 6 |
designation. | 7 |
WHEREAS, The United States Congress enacted and the President | 8 |
of the United States signed into law the Morrill Act of 1862 | 9 |
permitting each state to designate at least one institution as a | 10 |
"land grant" college or university where the leading object is the | 11 |
teaching of agriculture and the mechanic arts, initially endowing | 12 |
such institution with a grant of land or scrip for the receiving | 13 |
state to sell and invest on behalf of the institution; and | 14 |
WHEREAS, The United States Congress enacted and the President | 15 |
of the United States signed into law the Second Morrill Act of | 16 |
1890 to extend access to higher education by providing sustained | 17 |
federal support for all land grant institutions and to expand and | 18 |
enhance educational opportunities in agriculture and the mechanic | 19 |
arts for Black Americans; and | 20 |
WHEREAS, The State of Ohio established The Ohio State | 21 |
University as the state's land grant university under the Morrill | 22 |
Act of 1862 in order to provide excellent educational | 23 |
opportunities to all Ohioans; and | 24 |
WHEREAS, The State of Ohio, in 1887, created the Combined | 25 |
Normal and Industrial Department of Wilberforce University to | 26 |
provide teacher training and vocational education open to all | 27 |
qualified applicants of good and moral character; and | 28 |
WHEREAS, Central State University is the successor of that | 29 |
institution and continues to provide baccalaureate and graduate | 30 |
educational opportunities in a wide variety of agriculture-related | 31 |
disciplines; and | 32 |
WHEREAS, Central State University is Ohio's only public | 33 |
historically Black college or university; and | 34 |
WHEREAS, Central State University and its predecessor | 35 |
institutions have made the same extraordinary contributions to the | 36 |
education of African Americans in the State of Ohio as other 1890 | 37 |
universities have made in their respective states; and | 38 |
WHEREAS, The Ohio General Assembly desires to designate | 39 |
Central State University as an 1890 land grant university under | 40 |
the Second Morrill Act; therefore be it | 41 |
RESOLVED, That we, the members of the 129th General Assembly | 42 |
of Ohio, in adopting this Resolution, designate Central State | 43 |
University as a land grant university under the Second Morrill Act | 44 |
of 1890 and request that the United States Congress pass | 45 |
legislation, and the United States Department of Agriculture take | 46 |
the necessary steps, to recognize that designation and to provide | 47 |
Central State University with all of the benefits of such | 48 |
designation; and be it further | 49 |
RESOLVED, That the Clerk of the Senate transmit a duly | 50 |
authenticated copy of this Resolution to the Secretary of the | 51 |
United States Department of Agriculture, the Speaker, Majority | 52 |
Leader, and Minority Leader of the United States House of | 53 |
Representatives, and the President Pro Tempore, Majority Leader, | 54 |
and Minority Leader of the United States Senate. | 55 |