As Scott Jaschik at Inside Higher Ed reported in November 2009, many colleges chose to raise the amount of financial aid they awarded to keep their enrollment numbers steady. Jaschik highlights Sweet Briar as a college that kept its financial aid at
You might be wondering why I've chosen to write about an announcement that a small, but historic women's liberal arts college is planning to close. What does that have to do with atomic energy? The college, Sweet Briar
Because today, it's not a ghastly thing to have a woman educated, a woman running a household, especially doing the show at a woman's college. “So what we've done is we're going even more extreme with the look and the costumes and the style to really
Nadirah Abdus-Sabur (center), a junior engineering student, hugs her friends after singing the college's song in Prothro Hall at Sweet Briar College on Tuesday evening. Earlier in the day, Sweet Briar announced that the college would close in August.
Sweet Briar officials cited overarching challenges that the college has been unable to handle: the lack of interest from female high school students in attending a women's college like Sweet Briar, declining interest in liberal arts colleges generally