Qualla: Alice Lloyd College https://qualla.com/alice-lloyd-college en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:06 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/t/h/alice-lloyd-college-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Alice Lloyd College https://qualla.com/alice-lloyd-college Alice Lloyd College: Introduction https://qualla.com/alice-lloyd-college/ Photo credit Nyttend, Public domain. Alice Spencer Geddes Lloyd was a journalist from Cambridge, Massachusetts. She arrived in eastern Kentucky in 1916, partially paralyzed and using a wheelchair, and chose to stay in a hollow on Caney Creek in Knott County where the nearest paved road was a long way away. In 1923, with a New Yorker named June Buchanan, she founded a junior college and named it Caney. Its mission was singular: to educate young people from the Kentucky mountains to lead in the Kentucky mountains. Lloyd ran the school for almost forty years until her death in 1962. Today the college bearing her name sits in the village of Pippa Passes, named for a Robert Browning poem, and guarantees free tuition to students from 108 mountain counties across five states.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/t/h/alice-lloyd-college-wp/dnth-alice-lloyd-college-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Alice Lloyd College: The Work College https://qualla.com/alice-lloyd-college/ Photo credit Nyttend, Public domain. Every Alice Lloyd student works. That is not a financial-aid option or a labor exchange for the poor kids while the rich ones study - it is a requirement, for all students regardless of income. Janitorial, cafeteria (called Hunger Din), tutoring, office work, maintenance, grounds...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/t/h/alice-lloyd-college-wp/dnth-alice-lloyd-college-the-appalachian-leaders-scholarship.mp3 0:06 3 full Alice Lloyd College: Voices and Convocations https://qualla.com/alice-lloyd-college/ Photo credit Nyttend, Public domain. The Voices of Appalachia choir, formed in 1962 the year Alice Lloyd died, tours every spring performing hymns and old ballads from the mountains. They have appeared on NBC's Today and CBS News Sunday Morning. Convocations - mandatory speaker series, six per semester - bring outsi...

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