UC Merced

At the turn of the previous century, growing concern over the quality of life for rural Americans prompted President Theodore Roosevelt to appoint a Commission on Country Life in 1908. One of the direct outcomes of the Commission’s recommendations was the passage of the Smith-Lever Act in 1914, which established a national extension service to place the knowledge generated at land-grant universities into the hands of farmers and rural citizens. The Agricultural Extension Service formalized and built upon existing efforts of land-grant universities to enhance the knowledge of farmers and apply scientific discoveries for improved agricultural practices. Beginning in 1913, …

Institution: UC Merced, UC Cooperative Extension Archive

The UC Merced COVID-19 Response Collection chronicles the actions taken by the University in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This Collection aims to document and preserve those materials that document UC Merced's collective decision making to the pandemic in order to maintain and continue the University's academic, research, and public service missions.

Institution: UC Merced, Library and Special Collections

At the turn of the previous century, growing concern over the quality of life for rural Americans prompted President Theodore Roosevelt to appoint a Commission on Country Life in 1908. One of the direct outcomes of the Commission’s recommendations was the passage of the Smith-Lever Act in 1914, which established a national extension service to place the knowledge generated at land-grant universities into the hands of farmers and rural citizens. The Agricultural Extension Service formalized and built upon existing efforts of land-grant universities to enhance the knowledge of farmers and apply scientific discoveries for improved agricultural practices. Beginning in 1913, …

Institution: UC Merced, UC Cooperative Extension Archive, San Joaquin County Historical Society and Museum

The University of California Cooperative Extension Records for the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources (UCANR) span the years 1943-2003. Records are comprised of two central components: state annual reports and audiovisual materials. The reports combine data collected annually from each of the University of California Cooperative Extension (UCCE) county offices. They record the number of instances that extension workers carried out activities that include teaching and trainings, crop trials, consultations, and meetings. The reports also account for marketing and communication activities such as the number of news stories released, publications distributed, direct mailings, and radio and television broadcasts. …

Institution: UC Merced, UC Cooperative Extension Archive

The University of California Cooperative Extension Records for Ventura County span the years of 1916-2000. Records include reports and information on storm districts, irrigation and water management, farm management including information on farm labor and migrant workers, integrated pest management including information on pesticides and fertilizers, floriculture including information on gardens and landscaping, nutrition including information on food preservation, and youth developing including information on 4-H projects Agua Pura, Green Net Project, Youth Experiences in Science, and From Snails to Alpha Males. A large portion of the records are related to agriculture in Ventura County, the Coastal Plain, and the …

Institution: UC Merced, UC Cooperative Extension Archive

While Executive Order 9066 called for the forced imprisonment of all persons of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast of the United States, there was no existing infrastructure in place for these Japanese-Americans to go. The eventual concentration camps were not yet completed, or were not yet in a condition to house the vast numbers of prisoners needing shelter. Given this, the United States military established temporary detention camps across California, as well as centers in Arizona and Oregon, to act as stop-over locations until the larger concentration camps were "habitable." There were six such temporary detention camps (otherwise known …

Institution: UC Merced, Library and Special Collections