Nerdwallet, a personal financial services blogsite that provides information on banking, credit cards, college loans, mortgage loans, insurance, and stock trading, highlighted Berea College in a recent article. The feature focused on Berea’s Student Labor Program and two other schools that are members of the Work Colleges Consortium that also require students to work.
Anna Helhoski, a personal finance writer for NerdWallet, interviewed Sylvia Asante, Berea’s dean of labor, and Collis Robinson ’13, director of student labor, about Berea’s distinctive model of hiring every student to work for the College in addition for ensuring that their tuition costs are completely covered.