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Another is Deep Springs College, about 30 miles from Big Pine, CA. This is a two-year school, in the remote desert. Enrollment is about 30 students, coeducational since 2018. There is no tuition, but students work ~20 hours/week at jobs including cook, irrigator, butcher, groundskeeper, cowboy, "office cowboy", dairy, and feedman. The college was created to both train and accustom technical staff for powerplant engin…
Another is Deep Springs College, about 30 miles from Big Pine, CA. This is a two-year school, in the remote desert. Enrollment is about 30 students, coeducational since 2018. There is no tuition, but students work ~20 hours/week at jobs including cook, irrigator, butcher, groundskeeper, cowboy, "office cowboy", dairy, and feedman. The college was created to both train and accustom technical staff for powerplant engin…
Another is Deep Springs College, about 30 miles from Big Pine, CA. This is a two-year school, in the remote desert. Enrollment is about 30 students, coeducational since 2018. There is no tuition, but students work ~20 hours/week at jobs including cook, irrigator, butcher, groundskeeper, cowboy, "office cowboy", dairy, and feedman. The college was created to both train and accustom technical staff for powerplant engin…
(I'm not denigrating it. I've been a landscaper, dishwasher in highschool who was yelled at in Chinese nightly for not doing jobs other than dishwashing--like washing/polishing his car between rushes, General contractor, auto mechanic, and electrician. I know about manual labor, and I never liked it after my 40's. This program looked fun though.)
Another is Deep Springs College, about 30 miles from Big Pine, CA. This is a two-year school, in the remote desert. Enrollment is about 30 students, coeducational since 2018. There is no tuition, but students work ~20 hours/week at jobs including cook, irrigator, butcher, groundskeeper, cowboy, "office cowboy", dairy, and feedman. The college was created to both train and accustom technical staff for powerplant engin…
It feeds into really top tier schools, right?
There was a detailed profile of the school sometime in the past decade or so. I've been past it on CA-168 and recognised the name.
I thought the article had run in the NY Times or WSJ, though I don't find hits for the period I had in mind.
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=site%3Anytimes.com+%22deep+...
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=site%3Awsj.com+%22deep+spri...
It's hard to express just how remote it is. You'd have to head out into Montana or Alaska to do better.
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> They are all Christians. Is it atypical for a Christian college to be attended by Christians? I toured their campus years ago with a friend that was looking at attending the school. I'm not sure why you would go there if you weren't a Christian.
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This site is blocked in the EU. :-/
U. of Waterloo has an innovative model of alternating 4-month coops and then 4 months of school. By the time students graduate they've made some money and have a good amount of work experience. I really this was a model accessible to more people.