[Vision2020] UI Can Stay Put

[J Ford]

It is my understanding that the UI is a land grant institution.

It is also my understanding that this means Land-grant universities are 
institutions which have been designated by"Congress to receive the benefits 
of the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890. These acts funded educational 
institutions by granting FEDERALLY-CONTROLLED LAND to the  states. The 
mission of these institutions, as set forth in the 1862 Act, is to teach 
agriculture, military tactics, and the mechanic arts, not to the exclusion 
of classical studies, so that members of the working classes might obtain a 
practical college education...The mission of the land grant universities was 
expanded by the Smith-Lever Act of 1914 to include cooperative extension - 
the sending of agents into rural areas to help bring the results of 
agricultural research to the end users....Under the act, each eligible state 
received a total of 30,000 acres (121 km²) of FEDERAL LAND, either within or 
contiguous to its boundaries, for each member of congress the state had as 
of the census of 1860. This land, or the proceeds from its sale, was to be 
used toward establishing and funding the educational institutions."

According to the Idaho State Statutes:

TITLE  33
                                  EDUCATION
                                  CHAPTER 29
                        UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO -- FEDERAL
                               EDUCATIONAL AID
    33-2901.  ASSENT TO MORRILL ACTS. The assent of the legislature of the
state of Idaho is hereby given to all the provisions of an act of Congress,
approved July 2, 1862, entitled, "An ACT DONATING PUBLIC LANDS to the 
several
states which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the
mechanic arts," and the acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto.

Does this not mean, then, that the UI falls under a totally different 
category as far as location is concerned?  Especially considering the fact 
that lands used by the UI are FEDERAL LANDS?

Seems to me the discussion of UI being where it is (whether it is legal to 
be there or not) is moot and contrary to what the FEDERAL LAWS say it can 
and does do.


Just a thought.

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