The Morrill Land-Grant Acts, signed under President Abraham Lincoln, gave federal land to states so they could fund colleges focused on agriculture and the mechanic arts, which is where the "A&M" in school names like Texas A&M and North Carolina A&M comes from. States could lease or sell this federal land tax-free and use the proceeds to build land-grant universities, and this act is described as the origin of most US public university systems, including Michigan, Wisconsin, Berkeley, and Cornell.
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Cornell is noted as a hybrid case, half private and half public, due to its land-grant status.
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14:43American university system is OP. Okay. The moral land grant acts. This was President Abraham Lincoln. one of his one of his not so well-known accomplishments. Obviously, he saw us through the Civil War, one of the greatest presidents, if not the greatest president of the American system. But this is a this is a law that granted federal lands to states to establish colleges focusing on agriculture and the mechanic arts. That's what the lettering is >> and&m. >> Yeah. So when you talk about Texas A&M, North Carolina&M, >> this is where it comes from.
15:24>> That's where it comes from. The idea here is the federal government owns a bunch of land in your state, especially in the West. What the state can do is take that land, lease it or sell it, and from those proceeds, not have to pay any taxes, not have to even pay the federal government for that land, but use those proceeds to create land grant universities. So every um US state institution has its genesis here. University of Michigan, University of Wisconsin, Berkeley, um Cornell, even Cornell is like half private, half public that the the public