American novelist, Mark Powell, is the author of the the novel "The Dark Corner", and serves as what for the private four-year co-education liberal arts college, Lincoln Memorial University?
Mark Powell (novelist) Mark Powell (born 1976) is an American novelist. He is the author of the novels "The Dark Corner", "Blood Kin" and "Prodigals" (all with the University of Tennessee Press), as well as "The Sheltering" (Story River Books, an imprint of University of South Carolina Press). He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Breadloaf Writers' Conference. Educated at The Citadel, The University of South Carolina, and Yale Divinity School, Powell teaches in the English Department at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. He repeatedly serves as the fiction workshop leader for the Hindman Settlement School's Appalachian Writers Workshop and the Mountain Heritage Literary Festival at Lincoln Memorial University. Powell's work has established him in the southern Appalachian tradition alongside writers such as Pamela Duncan, Silas House and Ron Rash.
Work college Work colleges are distinctive liberal arts colleges in the United States that promote the purposeful integration of work, learning, and service. At a work college all students work regardless of their academic program or their financial need. A work college is a public or private non-profit, four-year degree-granting institution of higher learning where student work is an integrated, essential and federally required core component of the educational work-learning-service program. Unlike Federal Work Study, which is solely need-based, work colleges do not differentiate between those that can afford to pay for their education from those that must work to cover their educational costs. At work colleges, students are regularly evaluated and assessed on their work performance and can be dismissed from the institution for non-performance in the work program. Students do not have the ability to "buy" their way out of the work requirement. Students perform essential institutional functions in every area imaginable on their campuses and gain a strong sense of ownership and responsibility for their campus community. Student labor enables work colleges to be far more operationally efficient and administratively lean (compared to more traditional colleges). This, in turn, contributes to lower operational costs which results in lower – and more affordable – tuition.