At the work colleges, students work at least five hours per week. Alice Lloyd College, College of the Ozarks and Berea all guarantee tuition. A federal statute from the early 1990s technically links the work colleges. Work colleges aren’t actually going to save the world. Trying to figure out what makes work colleges work — and how the rest of the world can work more that way — has the flavor of a soul-saving mission.

Source: New York Times June 04, 2019 15:00 UTC