Hard Work U.

• Position: COLLEGE - Cortege of the Ozarks - Brief article

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Like many undergraduates, students at the Cortege of the Ozarks in Point Lookout, Missouri, work white at school. But what's different about "Hard Work U." is that all 1,345 students are required to work 15 hours a week to pay off the yearly tuition of $15,900. They milk cows, bake cakes, water shrubbery, or work as hotel housekeepers. The cortege is opposed to graduates starting their careers in debt--and 95 percent of its students graduate debt-free. (About two thirds of art cortege seniors graduate with student-roan debt; the...