Editing Work college

{{Short description|Type of U.S. college that requires work}}
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'''Work colleges''' are colleges in the United States that require students to work and integrate that work into the college learning experience. A work college is a public or private non-profit, four-year degree-granting institution with a commitment to community service. To qualify for Federal designation as a work college, at least half of the full-time students, including all students who reside on campus, must participate in a "comprehensive work-learning-service" program as an essential and core component of their educational programs, regardless of their academic program or their financial need. <ref>{{cite web|title=Title: 34 Education Subpart C-Work Colleges Program|url=http://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/retrieveECFR?gp=&SID=19510d2314b346907b450a1ad4c7244f&mc=true&n=sp34.3.675.c&r=SUBPART&ty=HTML|website=eCFR Electronic Code of Federal Regulations|publisher=US Government Publishing Office|ref=U.S. Department of Education}}</ref> 

Students typically work 6 to 15 hours per week while enrolled. Their compensation helps offset the cost of tuition, and student labor can lower operational costs. Work colleges differ from need-based forms of financial support such as Federal Work Study, because students cannot "buy" their way out of the work requirement; participation is part of the educational experience. Students are regularly assessed on their work performance, and can be dismissed from the institution for non-performance. Students typically work on campus, though some work colleges allow students to work at off-campus jobs.<ref>[http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ecfr&rgn=div6&view=text&node=34:3.1.3.1.38.3&idno=34 The United States federal government definition of Work College, Title 34 § 675.41, from GPO Electronic Code of Federal Regulations]</ref>

There are eight federally recognized work colleges in the Work College Consortium, meeting the requirements for operation as overseen by the U.S. Department of Education.<ref>[http://www.workcolleges.org/ Work College Consortium]</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://antiochcollege.edu/2024/03/14/ohio-work-college/ |title=Antioch College Achieves Federal Work College Designation, Paving the Way for Ohio's First Work College |author=[[Antioch College]] |date=March 14, 2024 |accessdate=May 3, 2024}}</ref>

*[[Alice Lloyd College]] in [[Pippa Passes, Kentucky]]
*[[Berea College]] in [[Berea, Kentucky]]
*[[Blackburn College (Illinois)|Blackburn College]] in [[Carlinville, Illinois]]
*[[College of the Ozarks]] in [[Point Lookout, Missouri]]
*[[Kuyper College]] in [[Grand Rapids, Michigan]]
*[[Paul Quinn College]] in [[Dallas, Texas]]
*[[Sterling College (Vermont)|Sterling College]] in [[Craftsbury, Vermont|Craftsbury Common, Vermont]]
*[[Warren Wilson College]] in [[Asheville, North Carolina]]

There is also one two-year work college:
*[[Deep Springs College]], California, limited to 26 students

==Predecessors==
A predecessor of the work college is the [[manual labor college]] movement of the 1820s up to about 1860. It also combined work, usually agricultural or mechanical, with preparatory or college study, often preparation for the [[Minister (Christianity)|ministry]]. Although it helped students financially, equally if not more important were the work's perceived healthful effects on the bodies and minds of the students.

==See also==
* [[Manual labor college]]
* [[Deep Springs College]]
* [[Land-grant university]]
* [[Federal Work-Study Program]]

==References==
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