Alice Lloyd College

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Alice Lloyd College

Established:	1923
Type:	Private, 4 year
President:	Joe Alan Stepp
Location:	Pippa Passes, Kentucky, USA
Colors:	Blue █ and White █
Mascot:	Eagles
Affiliations:	Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
Website:	http://www.alc.edu

Alice Lloyd College is a four-year liberal arts work college in Pippa Passes, Kentucky. It was founded by the Cambridge, Massachusetts-born journalist Alice Spencer Geddes Lloyd in 1923, initially under the name Caney Junior College, as an institution which would educate leaders for Appalachia locally. It became a four-year, bachelor's degree-granting institution in the early 1980s. Alice Lloyd College is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS).

While Alice Lloyd College does not rely on any direct financial support from the state or federal governments, they do accept federal and state student financial aid such as federal Pell Grants. Students are required to work in a work study program regardless of financial situation. They are given jobs such as janitorial staff, office assistant, tutor, craft maker, resident advisor, maintenance, grounds or working in the cafeteria (Hunger Din). Students are required to work 10 hours a week, with the exception of student supervisors who work 20 hours a week, for minimum wage.

1 Student life
2 Programs
3 Caney Cottage
4 External links

[edit] Student life

Alice Lloyd College requires students to live in gender-separated dormitories and only allows the opposite sex into a gender-specific dorm during "open houses", after room checks are made. Room checks consist of two resident advisors (RA's) going into each individual room and making sure it is clean and does not contain any illegal substances. The college is located in Knott County, Kentucky, a dry county, so drinking is not allowed.

Tuesdays are professional dress days where students are required by instructors, except for physical education classes housed in the Grady Nutt Athletic Center, to dress in business attire to attend any class before 2pm.

[edit] Programs

The college choir is called the "Voices of Appalachia." They assist in collecting donations for the college at various parts of the United States.

The college offers a series of speakers and events called convocations. Students are required to attend six convocations per semester.

The Commodore Slone Building, at one time housing the science program and most recently the June Buchanan School, the college's K-12 prep school, will be renovated to house the business program. According to the Spring 2008 issue of Pippa's Song, the college's newsletter, the renovation "is scheduled to begin in the summer of 2008 with completion in the fall of 2009."

[edit] Caney Cottage

The College owns an apartment complex on the campus of the University of Kentucky in Lexington. Students who graduate from Alice Lloyd and make it into graduate school can apply to live in the Caney Cottage rent-free.