The Importance Of The Academic Program At Berea College

Working during school and academic performance Todd R. Stinebrickner and Ralph Stinebrickner1 please direct correspondence to Todd R. Stinebrickner Dept. of Economics The Social Science Centre The University of Western Ontario London Ontario Canada n6a 5c2 trstineb@julian.uwo.ca phone 519 679-2111 ext. 5293 fax 519 661-3666 Unique new data from a college with a mandatory work-study program are used to examine the relationship between working during school and academic performance. Particular

many other students. I attend Berea College, a small liberal arts school in Berea, Kentucky. Berea is one of the few schools in the U.S. that gives every student a full tuition scholarship because of their impressive Student Labor Program. Every student is required to work a minimum of ten to twenty hours per week within the Berea College community in return for their education. Each student attains a higher education through creative application of the labor program, as well as valuable experience

My Berea: A Freshman’s Interaction with a Berea Education Berea College demonstrates an understanding of the complexity of a person by the interdisciplinary educational approach shown in the course catalog, which will lead a student, like me, to success after graduation. Berea’s approach to education relies on the principle of educating the whole person instead of simply teaching a skill. This education lends assistance to aspects of life that a non-Berea experience would not provide. Those aspects

Free Community College: Good or Bad Education these days is vital for many job titles. It can become difficult for many people to receive a job without a high school and especially a college education. Most jobs in America, from sales manager to registered nurse and even a construction worker in some cases, require an education past high school. With the cost of college, at average ten thousand dollars at state schools, not accounting for living quarters or even meals, it is leaving many students

of Kentucky share a lot of similar socio-economic characteristics. The school districts include Laurel, Whitley, Knox, Bell, Madison, Rockcastle, East Bernstadt, Clay, Jackson, Pulaski, Middlesboro, Pineville, Hyden, Cumberland, McCreary, Perry, Berea, Pike, Harlan, Knott, Leslie, Letcher, Lincoln, and Livingston. The prospective participants who were asked to participate in the study were certified middle school teachers and middle school principals in approximately forty-five middle schools in