More than 150 years after U.S. Congressman Justin S. Morrill pioneered the establishment of MSU as a land-grant institution within the Morrill Act, and with the looming demolition of MSU’s 103-year-old Morrill Hall, the MSU Board of Trustees voted to keep the Morrill’s history apparent on campus.
At Friday morning’s board meeting, the trustees approved Agriculture Hall’s new name, the Justin S. Morrill Hall of Agriculture.
“The original Morrill Act spurred Congressional action in funding agricultural experiment stations and cooperative extension services,” Fred Poston, dean of the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, said in a press release. “These pillars of the Morrill Act were at the time, and continue to be, central to MSU’s identity and mission.”
Plans to schedule an official renaming ceremony this fall are underway.
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