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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know you said you are looking for gender balance, but perhaps consider Sweet Briar College (all girls).  It really is a charming, wonderful school.[/quote]

With 3,000 -5,000 institutions of higher learning in the US, why would anyone pay private fees to a college which recently bellied up but was only narrowly saved by alums? That could happen again tomorrow [/quote]

I doubt it. They got rid of the old President. A new president is doing things in a different way.

I think the people trying to close the school for their own selfish purposes have been removed. It’s a lovely school. I’ve spent a lot of time on that campus. Pretty hiking trails. Horses. Small campus vibe with everything close. Good security. Nice library and gym. [/quote]

Sweet Briar’s closure had nothing tondi with “selfishness”. Go back and read. The President and Board felt it was fiscally irresponsible to continue to operate. It was a very serious matter. The alums got together to raise money to reopen. I would not send anyone there [/quote]

But they were wrong. The decision to close was based on projections and not reality.

They never warned people or asked for help. They just decided to close and gave little heads up.

“One surprise when the new leadership took over, Tomlinson said, was finding that the financial situation wasn’t as dire as they had expected. The closure was based on projections; if trends continued it would have been unsustainable. The current administration believes that changes can keep the school competitive, she said, despite the multi-million-dollar impact of the closure, including lawsuits, severance, and buying back faculty houses on the campus from professors who have gotten new jobs.”

You will not find such spirit at many schools. To keep their NCAA eligibility, for instance, students learned how to play field hockey. They lost every game and kept their eligibility, which would have taken years to get back.

Someone probably wanted the land and then found out too late the land can’t be sold, according to the will of Indiana Williams.

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