And now the professors have weighed in: They don’t want Sweet Briar to close, either. The faculty met Monday evening and voted unanimously to object to the abrupt plans to close the 114-year-old private women’s college in Virginia. Earlier this month, the interim president announced that insurmountable financial difficulties made closure inevitable. Professors — who are suddenly in a tough spot, about to be unemployed at a time of year when few universities are hiring, many of them owning a home on the sprawling 3,000-plus-acre campus that they now must, somehow, sell and move on — announced:

March 18, 2015 ・ From The Washington Post