Alice Lloyd College
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Alice Lloyd College is a four-year liberal arts work college
in Pippa Passes, Kentucky
. It was co-founded by the journalist Alice Spencer Geddes Lloyd
, a native of Cambridge, Massachusetts
and June Buchanan
, a native of New York City
, in 1923, at first under the name of Caney Junior College, as an institution to 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).
Ninety-five percent of Alice Lloyd College graduates are accepted into graduate and professional schools. Seventy-five percent of Alice Lloyd College graduates are the first in their families to obtain an undergraduate degree.
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). In addition to on-campus jobs, students can work at off-campus outreach projects. Students are required to work at least 160 hours per semester. The college is one of eight work colleges in the United States
and one of two in Kentucky (Berea College
being the other) that have mandatory work-study programs.
Students from 108 counties in the Appalachian Mountains
region of Kentucky, Ohio
, Tennessee
, Virginia
, and West Virginia
pay no tuition through the Appalachian Leaders College Scholarship.
going into each room and making sure that it is clean and it does not contain any illegal substances. The college is located in Knott County, Kentucky
, a dry county
, thus alcoholic beverages are prohibited.
Tuesdays are professional dress days in which students are required by their instructors, except for physical education
classes in the Grady Nutt
Athletic Center, to dress in business attire to attend any class before 2:00 p.m.
While this college is not affiliated with any religious denomination
, the college's mission statement emphasizes the role of Christian
values. In addition, the College offers coursework in religion
and has a chapter of Baptist Collegiate Ministries
.
The college choir
is called the "Voices of Appalachia." The choir, formed in 1962, holds a tour annually in the spring, performing hymns and ballads. The choir has made several media appearances, including NBC
's Today and CBS News Sunday Morning
.
The college offers a series of speakers and events called convocations. Students are required to attend six convocations per semester.
, the college's K-12 prep school
, was renovated to house the business program. The Business & Technology Center was completed in the fall of 2009 and was dedicated on October 10, 2009.
in Lexington
. Students who graduate from Alice Lloyd and are accepted into UK's graduate school
can apply to live in the Caney Cottage rent free. Those who attend other graduate schools can apply for cash scholarships that go toward tuition costs. After graduate school, scholarship recipients must commit to service in the Appalachian region.
, men's and women's basketball
, cross-country running, cheerleading
, men's golf
, softball
, men's and women's tennis
, and women's volleyball
. The college is a member of the Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
of the NAIA
.
Work college
A work college is a type of institution of higher learning where student work is an integral and mandatory part of the educational process, as opposed to being an appended requirement...
in Pippa Passes, Kentucky
Pippa Passes, Kentucky
In the census of 2000, there were 297 people, 48 households, and 30 families in the city. The population density was 557.3 per square mile . There were 50 housing units at an average density of 93.8 per square mile...
. It was co-founded by the journalist Alice Spencer Geddes Lloyd
Alice Spencer Geddes Lloyd
Alice Spencer Geddes Lloyd was an American social reformer who founded Alice Lloyd College in Pippa Passes, Kentucky....
, a native of Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Greater Boston area. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders. Cambridge is home to two of the world's most prominent...
and June Buchanan
June Buchanan
June Buchanan was an American educator and the co-founder of Alice Lloyd College in Pippa Passes, Kentucky.-Early life:...
, a native of New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
, in 1923, at first under the name of Caney Junior College, as an institution to educate leaders for Appalachia
Appalachia
Appalachia is a term used to describe a cultural region in the eastern United States that stretches from the Southern Tier of New York state to northern Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia. While the Appalachian Mountains stretch from Belle Isle in Canada to Cheaha Mountain in the U.S...
locally. It became a four-year, bachelor's degree
Bachelor's degree
A bachelor's degree is usually an academic degree awarded for an undergraduate course or major that generally lasts for three or four years, but can range anywhere from two to six years depending on the region of the world...
-granting institution in the early 1980s. Alice Lloyd College is accredited
Educational accreditation
Educational accreditation is a type of quality assurance process under which services and operations of educational institutions or programs are evaluated by an external body to determine if applicable standards are met...
by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools is one of the six regional accreditation organizations recognized by the United States Department of Education and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation...
(SACS).
Academics
As of 2010, Alice Lloyd College has implemented 13 major degree programs and eight pre-professional programs into its curricula. The school has an acceptance rate of about one half of prospective students who apply. The student-to-faculty ratio of 17:1 is quite low.Ninety-five percent of Alice Lloyd College graduates are accepted into graduate and professional schools. Seventy-five percent of Alice Lloyd College graduates are the first in their families to obtain an undergraduate degree.
Student finances and work-study
While Alice Lloyd College does not rely on any direct financial support from the state or federal governments, it does accept students using federal and state student financial aid such as federal Pell Grants. Of the 16 percent of students who receive education loans, the average amount is approximately $800. According to the Project on Student Debt, each of Alice Lloyd's 2009 graduates carried an average debt of $6,500, which is well below the statewide average of $19,112 and the national average of $24,000.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
Resident Advisor
Resident Advisor is an online electronic music magazine dedicated to the global dance music scene. The website won a People's Voice award in the 12th Annual Webby Awards in 2008.-Site History:...
, maintenance, grounds or working in the cafeteria (Hunger Din). In addition to on-campus jobs, students can work at off-campus outreach projects. Students are required to work at least 160 hours per semester. The college is one of eight work colleges in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
and one of two in Kentucky (Berea College
Berea College
Berea College is a liberal arts work college in Berea, Kentucky , founded in 1855. Current full-time enrollment is 1,514 students...
being the other) that have mandatory work-study programs.
Students from 108 counties in the Appalachian Mountains
Appalachian Mountains
The Appalachian Mountains #Whether the stressed vowel is or ,#Whether the "ch" is pronounced as a fricative or an affricate , and#Whether the final vowel is the monophthong or the diphthong .), often called the Appalachians, are a system of mountains in eastern North America. The Appalachians...
region of Kentucky, Ohio
Ohio
Ohio is a Midwestern state in the United States. The 34th largest state by area in the U.S.,it is the 7th‑most populous with over 11.5 million residents, containing several major American cities and seven metropolitan areas with populations of 500,000 or more.The state's capital is Columbus...
, Tennessee
Tennessee
Tennessee is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States. It has a population of 6,346,105, making it the nation's 17th-largest state by population, and covers , making it the 36th-largest by total land area...
, Virginia
Virginia
The Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...
, and West Virginia
West Virginia
West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian and Southeastern regions of the United States, bordered by Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Ohio to the northwest, Pennsylvania to the northeast and Maryland to the east...
pay no tuition through the Appalachian Leaders College Scholarship.
Student life
The dormitories house about 600 students, with rental prices averaging $1,900 annually. 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 have been made. Room checks consist of two resident advisorsResident assistant
A resident assistant , commonly shortened to RA is a trained peer leader who supervises those living in a residence hall or group housing facility...
going into each room and making sure that it is clean and it does not contain any illegal substances. The college is located in Knott County, Kentucky
Knott County, Kentucky
Knott County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. It was formed in 1884. As of 2000, the population was 17,649. Its county seat is Hindman. The county is named for James Proctor Knott, Governor of Kentucky . It is a prohibition or dry county. Notable inhabitants include U.S....
, a dry county
Dry county
A dry county is a county in the United States whose government forbids the sale of alcoholic beverages. Some prohibit off-premises sale, some prohibit on-premises sale, and some prohibit both. Hundreds of dry counties exist across the United States, almost all of them in the South...
, thus alcoholic beverages are prohibited.
Tuesdays are professional dress days in which students are required by their instructors, except for physical education
Physical education
Physical education or gymnastics is a course taken during primary and secondary education that encourages psychomotor learning in a play or movement exploration setting....
classes in the Grady Nutt
Grady Nutt
Grady Lee Nutt was a Southern Baptist minister, humorist, television personality, and author. His humor revolved around rural Southern Protestantism and earned him the title as "The Prime Minister of Humor."...
Athletic Center, to dress in business attire to attend any class before 2:00 p.m.
While this college is not affiliated with any religious denomination
Religious denomination
A religious denomination is a subgroup within a religion that operates under a common name, tradition, and identity.The term describes various Christian denominations...
, the college's mission statement emphasizes the role of Christian
Christianity
Christianity is a monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus as presented in canonical gospels and other New Testament writings...
values. In addition, the College offers coursework in religion
Religion
Religion is a collection of cultural systems, belief systems, and worldviews that establishes symbols that relate humanity to spirituality and, sometimes, to moral values. Many religions have narratives, symbols, traditions and sacred histories that are intended to give meaning to life or to...
and has a chapter of Baptist Collegiate Ministries
Baptist Student Union
The Baptist Student Union is the traditional name of a college-level organization that can be found on many college campuses in the United States and Canada. As the term BSU became associated with other organizations, many local ministries changed their name...
.
The college choir
Choir
A choir, chorale or chorus is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform.A body of singers who perform together as a group is called a choir or chorus...
is called the "Voices of Appalachia." The choir, formed in 1962, holds a tour annually in the spring, performing hymns and ballads. The choir has made several media appearances, including NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
's Today and CBS News Sunday Morning
CBS News Sunday Morning
CBS News Sunday Morning is an American television news magazine program created by Robert Northshield and original host Charles Kuralt. The program has aired continuously since January 28, 1979 on the CBS Television Network, airing in the Eastern US on Sunday from 9:00 to 10:30 a.m...
.
The college offers a series of speakers and events called convocations. Students are required to attend six convocations per semester.
Campus
The Commodore Slone Building, at one time housing the science program and most recently the June Buchanan SchoolJune Buchanan School
The June Buchanan School is a private K-12 prep school located on the campus of Alice Lloyd College in Pippa Passes, Kentucky. It is named after founder June Buchanan, who, along with social reformer Alice Spencer Geddes Lloyd, founded the college. It has a student-teacher ratio of 10-1...
, the college's K-12 prep school
University-preparatory school
A university-preparatory school or college-preparatory school is a secondary school, usually private, designed to prepare students for a college or university education...
, was renovated to house the business program. The Business & Technology Center was completed in the fall of 2009 and was dedicated on October 10, 2009.
Caney/Berger Scholarship
The college owns the H.N. and Frances C. Berger Residence Hall, also known as Caney Cottage, an apartment complex near the campus of the University of KentuckyUniversity of Kentucky
The University of Kentucky, also known as UK, is a public co-educational university and is one of the state's two land-grant universities, located in Lexington, Kentucky...
in Lexington
Lexington, Kentucky
Lexington is the second-largest city in Kentucky and the 63rd largest in the US. Known as the "Thoroughbred City" and the "Horse Capital of the World", it is located in the heart of Kentucky's Bluegrass region...
. Students who graduate from Alice Lloyd and are accepted into UK's graduate school
Graduate school
A graduate school is a school that awards advanced academic degrees with the general requirement that students must have earned a previous undergraduate degree...
can apply to live in the Caney Cottage rent free. Those who attend other graduate schools can apply for cash scholarships that go toward tuition costs. After graduate school, scholarship recipients must commit to service in the Appalachian region.
Presidents
Since the death of Alice Lloyd in 1962, five men have taken the position of president of the Alice Lloyd College:| Year | Name | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1963–77 | William S. Hayes | |
| 1977–88 | Jerry C. Davis | president of the College of the Ozarks College of the Ozarks College of the Ozarks is a private, Christian liberal-arts college, with its campus at Point Lookout near Branson and Hollister, Missouri, United States. It is south of Springfield on a campus, overlooking Lake Taneycomo... |
| 1988–95 | M. Fred Mullinax | executive vice-president of the College of the Ozarks |
| 1995–99 | Timothy T. Siebert | |
| 1999–present | Joe Alan Stepp | The first native of Appalachia Appalachia Appalachia is a term used to describe a cultural region in the eastern United States that stretches from the Southern Tier of New York state to northern Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia. While the Appalachian Mountains stretch from Belle Isle in Canada to Cheaha Mountain in the U.S... to become ALC's president |
Athletics
Alice Lloyd College has an athletic program composed of baseballBaseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...
, men's and women's basketball
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
, cross-country running, cheerleading
Cheerleading
Cheerleading is a physical activity, sometimes a competitive sport, based on organized routines, usually ranging from one to three minutes, which contain the components of tumbling, dance, jumps, cheers, and stunting to direct spectators of events to cheer on sports teams at games or to participate...
, men's golf
Golf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
, softball
Softball
Softball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of 10 to 14 players. It is a direct descendant of baseball although there are some key differences: softballs are larger than baseballs, and the pitches are thrown underhand rather than overhand...
, men's and women's tennis
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
, and women's volleyball
Volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...
. The college is a member of the Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
The Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletic Conference is a collegiate athletic conference with membership in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics...
of the NAIA
National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics
The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics is an athletic association that organizes college and university-level athletic programs. Membership in the NAIA consists of smaller colleges and universities across the United States. The NAIA allows colleges and universities outside the USA...
.
Notable alumni
- Dr. Grady Stumbo, (1945–present) A.A., Alice Lloyd College 1965, B.S. University of Kentucky 1967, M.D. University of Kentucky 1971. Rockefeller award winner, former head of Kentucky Democratic PartyKentucky Democratic PartyThe Kentucky Democratic Party is the local branch of the Democratic Party in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, USA. The party Chairman is Daniel Logsdon, Jr., Party Vice-Chair is Susie Watkins, and David Tandy is Treasurer...
(1991–1995). - Carl D. PerkinsCarl D. PerkinsCarl Dewey Perkins , a Democrat, was a politician and member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Kentucky.-Early years:Perkins was born in Hindman, Kentucky...
, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1949 through 1984.
See also
- June Buchanan SchoolJune Buchanan SchoolThe June Buchanan School is a private K-12 prep school located on the campus of Alice Lloyd College in Pippa Passes, Kentucky. It is named after founder June Buchanan, who, along with social reformer Alice Spencer Geddes Lloyd, founded the college. It has a student-teacher ratio of 10-1...
, a K-12K-12K–12 is a designation for the sum of primary and secondary education. It is used in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand where P–12 is also commonly used...
prep schoolUniversity-preparatory schoolA university-preparatory school or college-preparatory school is a secondary school, usually private, designed to prepare students for a college or university education...
on the campus. - WWJD-FM, which is owned and operated by the College.