Warren Wilson College, Asheville, North Carolina. Warren Wilson College is an independent liberal arts college located on a beautiful 1,135-acre campus in the Blue Ridge Mountains on the edge of Asheville, North Carolina, one of America's most livable cities.
Faculty members are unranked, with a system of extended contracts instead of tenure.
Warren Wilson College offers a triad education program combining study, work, and service. Ninety percent of students, about half of full-time faculty, and many staff members reside on campus. All resident students work 15 hours per week on campus, providing the essential services to maintain the college, and all students engage in service to others as a requirement for graduation. The recently renovated and expanded Pew Learning Center and Ellison Library houses approximately 90,000 volumes and has about 7,000 online journal titles and over 100 licenses to online information services. The library has a DRA system as a part of a regional six-college consortium and participates actively in NC LIVE and other consortia.