Alice Lloyd College

Alice Lloyd College is named for its founder, Alice Spencer Geddes Lloyd, who came to the Eastern Kentucky Mountains from her native home in Boston. Early in her career, she was a writer for local newspapers and periodicals. In 1902, Miss Geddes was publisher and editor of The Cambridge Press, the first publication in America with an all-female staff.

The mission of Alice Lloyd College is to educate mountain people for positions of leadership by:

• Making an Alice Lloyd College education available to qualified mountain students regardless of their financial situation.
• Offering a high quality academic program, emphasizing the liberal arts.
• Promoting the work ethic through a self-help Student Work Program in which all full-time students participate.
• Providing an atmosphere in which Christian values are maintained, encouraging high personal standards, and the development of character.
• Serving the community and region through appropriate outreach programs which utilize mountain people helping mountain people.
• Assisting deserving students in obtaining advanced study beyond their program at Alice Lloyd.
• Producing leaders for Appalachia who possess high moral and ethical values, an attitude of self-reliance, and a sense of service to others.