Ky. The primary goal of the school is to provide mountain young people with a quality education regardless of their financial ability. A tuition-guaranteed education is offered to residents of the Appalachian region encompassing 100 counties in Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, and Tennessee. The faculty live on campus to be available to the students for an optimum learning environment. The College does not receive any direct federal or state money. It depends greatly on the generosity of the private sector.
Work is required of all full-time students to help with educational costs.
Most students must work ten hours a week on campus, engaged in such jobs as filing in the registrar's office, washing dishes in the kitchen, tutoring, and maintenance or grounds work. They are paid minimum wages which are applied to educational expenses. The original house built for Alice Lloyd by Abisha Johnson in 1916. It is where Mrs. Lloyd provided the first education in the Caney Creek area. The latter has now relocated to the new student center.