No-cost tuition, outstanding academics and a breathtaking campus make Berea College special. So do free student laptops, paid jobs in the Labor Program and the chance for lifelong…
“Berea found me,” remembers Ariel Owens Williams ’14. Williams grew up and lived in Hawaii, but her father moved them to Kentucky for a short period of time…
“I’m just a girl from Africa who loves to make things,” said Katie ’23, who was raised in Mozambique by missionary parents from the U.S. and Sweden. The…
For Zy Garrett ’22, the magic is in the details. So, when the opportunity arose to design color blocks for Berea’s new line of quilts, launching this autumn,…
The common narrative on work colleges is that students work their way through school, paying off their tuition with their labor. It may be the common narrative because…
Ann Adams Hays ’78 has a favorite memory of watching the yellow leaves fall from the gingko tree outside the old science building, which is where the biology…
In the early part of the 1980s, as Jodi Gentry ’87 was thinking about college, her options were not limited. Though living in rural Florida in a single-income…
Not too long ago, there was a girl at the Cincinnati Ballet who loved to dance. She loved other things, too, like art and playing school with her…
In a simple but beautiful wooden box, hand-carved by students in Berea’s Woodcraft program, sit the stubs of checks made out to the College 55 years ago. This…
Rev. John G. Fee At first glance, the minutes of the Sept. 7, 1892, Berea College Board of Trustees meeting seem unremarkable. President of the Board, Rev. John…