Sweet Briar College
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| Motto | Rosam quae meruit ferat (Latin) |
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Motto in English
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She who has earned the rose may bear it |
| Type | Private women's college |
| Established | 1901 |
| Endowment | $94 million (July 2014) $70 million (November 2015) |
| President | Phillip C. Stone |
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Academic staff
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110 (Spring 2015) |
| Students | 250 (Winter 2015) |
| Location | Sweet Briar, Virginia, U.S. |
| Campus | Rural, 3,250 acres (13.15 km2) |
| Colors | Pink and Green |
| Athletics | NCAA Division III, ODAC |
| Nickname | Vixens |
| Website | www.sbc.edu |
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Sweet Briar College Historic District
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Arcade between Pannell Art Gallery and Randolph Hall
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| Location | Sweet Briar Dr., .5 miles west of US 29, Amherst, Virginia |
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| Coordinates | 37°33′20″N 79°4′50″W / 37.55556°N 79.08056°WCoordinates: 37°33′20″N 79°4′50″W / 37.55556°N 79.08056°W |
| Area | 27.2 acres (11.0 ha) |
| Architect | Ralph Adams Cram; et al. |
| Architectural style | Colonial Revival |
| NRHP Reference # | 95000240 |
| VLR # | 005-0219 |
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| Added to NRHP | March 30, 1995 |
| Designated VLR | January 15, 1995 |
Sweet Briar College is a women's liberal arts college in Sweet Briar, Virginia, United States, about 12 miles (19 km) north of Lynchburg. The college is on 3,250 acres (13,152,283 m2) in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, on the former estate of the college's founder, Indiana Fletcher Williams. Sweet Briar was established in 1901 as the Sweet Briar Institute and opened its doors in 1906. The college is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges to award the Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Bachelor of Science, Master of Arts in Teaching, and Master of Education.
On March 3, 2015, Sweet Briar's board of directors announced that the college would be closing at the end of the summer session, citing "insurmountable financial challenges". In response, a group of concerned alumnae and friends of the college formed a nonprofit organization, Saving Sweet Briar, to reverse the board's decision. Saving Sweet Briar, students, parents and alumnae, faculty and staff, and the local Commonwealth Attorney all filed lawsuits to enjoin the closing, one of which reached the Virginia Supreme Court. On June 20, 2015, the Virginia Attorney General announced a mediation agreement to keep Sweet Briar College open. After replacing the board and president, the college rescinded the closing announcement. In January 2016, the college announced that it had received more than 1000 applications for the 2016-2017 academic year, and that it did not plan to touch the $16 million of restricted funds initially planned to be released from the endowment by the attorney general. The college additionally announced that students at Sweet Briar would begin to be able to take online courses through the Consortium for Online Humanities Instruction in the spring 2016 semester due to a Council of Independent Colleges grant; two of the courses available online will be taught by Sweet Briar faculty members.
The college is named after the former plantation of Elijah Fletcher and his descendants. Fletcher was a 19th-century teacher, businessman and mayor of Lynchburg, Virginia. He married Maria Antoinette Crawford in 1813, and purchased the Sweet Briar plantation property from her aunt and uncle. The plantation was initially known as Locust Ridge; Crawford supposedly renamed it "Sweet Briar" after the roses which grew on the land. Their daughter, Indiana Fletcher, was born in 1828 in Lynchburg.
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