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It nearly closed in 2015 but was saved by donations and legal actions by alumnae. Sweet Briar is known for its campus with its historic Georgian Revival architecture by Ralph Adams Cram and its 3,250 acres (13.2 km 2) of hills, forests, and fields. History. Elijah Fletcher (1789–1858), father of Indiana Fletcher Williams. Sweet Briar plantation.
Mar 4, 2015 · Sweet Briar College announced Tuesday that it is shutting down at the end of this academic year. Small colleges close or merge from time to time, more frequently since the economic downturn...
May 17, 2018 · Three years ago, Sweet Briar, a women’s college in rural Virginia, announced that it would close after more than a century of operation. Enrollment had declined to fewer than 700 students,...
Mar 28, 2015 · The boathouse at Sweet Briar College, a 114-year-old women’s institution that decided to close because of insurmountable financial difficulties.
Eight years ago, the president of Sweet Briar College abruptly announced that the more-than-century-old school would shut down. Horrified alumnae rushed in to save the small private women’s...
Jul 12, 2017 · The venerable all-women’s college announced it’s shuttering after this year’s graduation. Why it won’t be the last liberal arts college to close shop.
May 8, 2015 · When Sweet Briar opened in 1906, many of the nation's top schools remained closed to women. But since the '90s, women have been enrolling in college at higher rates than men — a gap that's...
Sep 6, 2017 · Two years after alumnae filed a lawsuit and raised $12 million in a matter of weeks to keep the tiny institution from closing, Sweet Briar College’s faculty and its new president unveiled...
Aug 23, 2015 · Sweet Briar’s leaders announced in March that the 114-year-old liberal arts college would close this month, buried by financial challenges deemed insurmountable. It was seen by many as another blow for private liberal arts colleges, especially women’s institutions.
Jun 4, 2015 · RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Opponents of the planned closure of Sweet Briar College made a desperate plea Thursday to the Supreme Court of Virginia to temporarily block its shuttering in hopes of saving the 114-year-old women’s institution.
