Chapter 12: The Curriculum And Courses of Study at Connecticut Agricultural College

Rufus W. Stimson served as president of Connecticut Agricultural College from 1901 to 1908. During this time, he developed and promoted a six-year curriculum that brought the college closer to its natural constituency, practical farmers, and more in line with the best of the other land-grant colleges. An examination of this curriculum and Stimson’s strategic use of it offers important sightlines into a critical early stage of land-grant college development.