Alc.edu is the web site entry portal for the Alice Lloyd Liberal Arts College, located in the Appalachian Mountains. It is a fully independent school, and does not accept government funding. The website has fairly detailed and well organized information about the mission and history of the college. The expectations for student life, work programs, and the graduates are also outlined. A strong emphasis is placed on the return of their investment of education to the surrounding mountain communities that the graduates will make. Though an ethos of “Christian principles” is mentioned, it is worth observing that the site also stresses the values of tolerance and international relations.
There is a fair amount of Alice Lloyd’s, the schools founder, philosophy that is expressed on alc.edu, and she created a “Purpose Road” ideal which has been symbolically created, and is diagrammed on the site. The result of these ideas is to foster graduates to a life of “service to Humanity and God.” The sites, alc.edu, side menus are an interesting mix of linked pages that include the logistics of the campus, such as locations, maps, and contact information. However, generously mixed into these are the various aspects of the mindset behind the practicality such as the President’s Message, Mission, Campus Vision, Voices of Appalachia, and the Purpose Road Philosophy.
Pippa’s Song is the name of the official newsletter of the Alice Lloyd College, published three times a year, and the current and past issues can be downloaded from alc.edu.
As the school is financially independent and makes a big point of not turning students away for financial reasons, there are also a fair number of pages dedicated to the ways that funds are raised.
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