No frills, no tuition.

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Berea College doesn't have a football team, coed dorms, or hot tubs. Instead, it has a no-frills budget, with food from the college farm, furniture from its crafts workshops, 10-hour-a-week campus jobs for all students--and no tuition.

This liberal arts college in Berea, Kentucky, was founded in 1855 to educate freed slaves and "poor white mountaineers." Today, Berea only accepts students from low-income families, and for many it can be a haven from high schools where...