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Sweet Briar College is a private women's liberal arts college in Sweet Briar, Amherst County, Virginia. It was established in 1901 by Indiana Fletcher Williams in memory of her deceased daughter, Daisy. [3] The college formally opened its doors in 1906 and granted the B.A. degree for the first time in 1910.
Meta Glass (August 16, 1880 – March 20, 1967) was an American classics scholar, educator, and college administrator. From 1925 through 1946, she was the third president of Sweet Briar College. She was also president of the Association of American Colleges and the American Association of University Women for several years.
An all-women, private school in Virginia is shutting its doors after more than a century. Sweet Briar College, which opened in 1906, announced Tuesday it will close indefinitely at the end of the ...
Junior college: SACS: 1968 2,163 Sweet Briar College: Sweet Briar: Private (not for profit) Baccalaureate / Associates Colleges SACS: 1901 [15] 460 Tidewater Community College: Chesapeake, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Virginia Beach: Public (Virginia Community College System) Junior college: SACS: 1968 16,195 Union Presbyterian Seminary: Richmond ...
She served as President of Sweet Briar College and as the Dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Virginia. She is the former director of the International Higher Education Support Program at the Open Society Foundations in London.
James F. Jones Jr. (born April 9, 1947) is an American academic administrator and educator. He began his career as a professor of Romance languages and other humanities. His administrative posts have included being vice provost of Southern Methodist University and dean of its Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences; president of Kalamazoo College; president of Trinity College in Hartford ...
Sweet Briar College (1967–2002) Paul David Cronin (May 26, 1936 – December 29, 2024) was an American horseman , riding instructor , and author. He studied under Vladimir Littauer for 30 years, and taught Littauer's forward seat riding system .
In May of 2015, Tomlinson gave the graduation speech at Sweet Briar College weeks after the college’s leadership had voted to close the college. [9] [10] In June of 2015, she and others were appointed to the newly configured Sweet Briar Board of Trustees by a settlement agreement approved by the Bedford County, Virginia Circuit Court. [11]