Colleges where everyone works and there's no tuition
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Colleges where everyone works and there's no tuition
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#3I attended one of these colleges -- it also has a private high school on campus with a similar model. In college I did things from HVAC, custodial, resident assistant, to web development to pay my tuition.
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#4I am from Eastern Kentucky. My dad was the first in the family to go to college and attended Berea. I don't know what jobs he held all through school but he did a lot of wood working at one point and brought those skills home.
Several students in my high school also attended Alice Lloyd over the years. One of my closest acquaintances did custodial work and always spoke highly of it and seemed to enjoy being on campus and working there.
I think both of these schools (and I am sure the others) perform a much needed service and I would love to see more schools offer something like this. I was a work-study student in college but of course $8 / hr didn't cover much. It would have been nice to have some sort of merit / effort based compensation above the cash pay to help offset tuition costs.
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#7Another 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 engineering positions in the highly-rural western and mountain states.
Most students transfer to a 4 year institution to complete their degrees.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Springs_College
There've been a small handful of HN submissions, though no discussion.
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=%22deep%20springs%22
Several comments as well:
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
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#8U. 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.
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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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I grew up in the area and didn’t wear Nike shoes because of a lack of money