Within hours of the unexpected announcement last month that Sweet Briar College would close forever this summer, people began fighting the board’s decision. By this week, those efforts had led to three lawsuits simultaneously challenging the closure, one being appealed to the Virginia Supreme Court. Now the Virginia Attorney General has formally offered to help those involved — both school officials working toward shutting down the school, and those trying to keep it open — reach a compromise. Attorney General Mark Herring’s office had already reached out before lawsuits were filed, his spokesman Michael Kelly said, but Thursday the office sent a letter on behalf of Herring to school officials and lawyers, asking when they could meet in the next two weeks to try to reach a solution.

May 1, 2015 ・ From The Washington Post