Saturday, May 30, 2015

Letter from Marion Walker '72 - May 2015

Now the question we get is...what if you got the keys, who

is on the Board, who are the students, what faculty do you

have and how do you make a dying institution come back to life?

First, we do not have all of the answers this minute,

but closure certainly has none.

Second, there is a ground swell of support to try

to sustain the College- a property that does not have

the same value as any other type of place.

Third, there are women with, energy, yes, but a

life born in the bowels of that glorious place-

that took power into lives from there that will not die,

nor let it go through negligence.

So, while the details of the life of the college

cannot be known this minute, this night,

all she gave us can make us know this is not her

last breath - not so long as we breathe and give

air back to the sails she taught us to set.

Pity the end of any mediation. May the current Board

accept out thanks for their efforts and then dare any

to come in and do any better. If the second wave fails,

the rest cannot be any worse.

But, this entire event could be just the disruption in how

things have been done that makes the change for

longevity the logical and sustaining step.

Let us talk. not sue, think and not dig in,

believe and not scorn, and look at the communities,

and institutions In our country who need our graduates.

Let's do this!

Marion Walker

Class of 1972

Friday, May 29, 2015

Letter to Sweet Briar Classmates from Grace Mary Garry Oates '64

Dear Sweet Briar Classmates,

As you all know, the Supreme Court of the Commonwealth of Virginia will hear arguments on June 4–next week–regarding the closing of Sweet Briar. Because it is vitally important to let the Court know that the opponents of closing can muster sufficient funds to support a renewed Sweet Briar, the women of Saving Sweet Briar recently sent us all a letter asking that we make immediate pledges in order to reach a goal of $20 million before the Court meets. It is clearly stipulated that these pledges will be redeemed only after we are successful in halting the closing. I’m sure that many of you have responded, as I have, by making new pledges even if you had already pledged in the past. If you have not responded to this recent letter, I ask you to do so right now. Many, many women have worked long and hard, neglecting almost every other aspect of their lives, in order to save Sweet Briar. This is OUR chance to help, and it is our LAST chance. If you have a few minutes to read further, I’d like to tell you why I think this is so very important.

During the final days of April I paid a visit to Sweet Briar. Ever since the terrible announcement of March 3, I had known that I must do so. I wanted to talk to students and faculty, to hear their stories, to let them know that I cared deeply about what they were enduring and that I shared in their grief. Most of all, perhaps, I wanted to be at Sweet Briar, to experience it in a way I cannot at reunion or fall homecoming because during those events I am so busy visiting with all of you that I do nothing else. Now I wanted to be at Sweet Briar by myself–looking, walking, remembering, thinking. But I was apprehensive: Would I spend the entire time weeping? Would I feel, literally, like jumping in the lake? Finally, with only a week remaining before the end of classes, I bit the bullet.

It was to the lake I took myself as soon as I’d checked in at the Elston Inn. On my way there I stopped in front of the library to talk to a group of students–two seniors and three juniors. As I told them why I was there, I felt the tears coming; tears welled up in their eyes as well. I heard their stories, the first of many I was to hear, all basically the same story and not a good one. The juniors recounted the plans they are trying to make for next year–a process infinitely more complicated and discouraging and downright impossible than the rosy reports of “teach-in” colleges put forth by Jones and the Board. During my stay (Wednesday afternoon through late Friday afternoon) I ate with groups of students at every meal in Prothro Commons, waylaid them as they walked across campus, and met with them after a Sweet Tones concert and an art history lecture. Many of the students–and just about all of the juniors, including some with nearly perfect GPS’s–are finding that all their credits will not transfer because of different course requirements in their majors and certain residence requirements. Every student that I talked to was finding it difficult or impossible to get financial aid from the new institution.

By the time I arrived in May the students had recovered from the initial shock but not from their anger. They were angry at the betrayal they had suffered and even angrier at the betrayal of Sweet Briar. I was particularly moved by the fact that many seemed more worried about Sweet Briar than about themselves. They treasure every inch of Sweet Briar’s 3,250 acres and feel, as I believe many of us do, a living presence, the very soul of the place now violated or threatened with violation. Girl after girl told me that she would be back at Sweet Briar next fall if Sweet Briar is there. One of the students I had dinner with on my first night talked to me again before I departed. A sophomore, she had been admitted to one of the “teach-in” colleges. “I visited there when I was looking at colleges,” she told me, “and I didn’t like it. I didn’t want to go there then and I don’t want to go now. If Sweet Briar is open in the fall, I’ll be here. If it doesn’t reopen till 2016, I’ll treat next year like my junior year abroad.” Then she stopped and the tears came into her eyes. “I want to be here,” she said, “because there is no place else like this on earth.”

The faculty, as you can imagine, had other horror tales to tell. Since academic jobs do not grow on trees, many who for years have dedicated their lives to educating the young women of Sweet Briar now find themselves hung out to dry. Unluckier still are those who actually own houses on campus but, of course, not the land under them. They are to be paid “fair market value,” but who knows what that means under these strange circumstances? Whatever they are paid, they are expected to clear out almost immediately. A junior chemistry major reported that science faculty have been ordered to clean out the labs in Guion, a job that would involve the disposal of hazardous substances, which of course legally they cannot do. But such is the wisdom of the close-the-place-down President and Board. Still, in the midst of all this chaos and personal disaster, many of the faculty with whom I spoke seemed most concerned about the fate of their students. This remarkable care and dedication have characterized Sweet Briar faculty from the beginning. It certainly was their hallmark in our day, and it is another of Sweet Briar’s glories that must not be tossed aside like so much useless debris.

So I listened and I walked and I thought. I climbed to the third floor of Fletcher, still the abode of the English department. In the library I sat in the Browsing Room, wound through the stacks, admired the spectacular new addition (insanely built after some on the Board must already have made their decision), and almost wept when I saw the recently restored main reference room, every little stucco rose in the ceiling exquisitely defined in gleaming white. In our beloved Refectory, now the Pannell Center, I attended a fascinating lecture on medieval art by a 2003 Sweet Briar graduate (now a curator at the National Gallery in Washington) and felt a familiar pride in the accomplishments of yet another Sweet Briar woman. Finally I went to the Monument, where I spent a long time talking to Miss Indie and Daisy and looking down at beautiful Sweet Briar. But I did not have to be on Monument Hill to commune with Miss Indie. I could feel her presence wherever I walked on campus, just as I felt the presence of Sweet Briar’s other ghosts. Those ghosts are different for all of us, I suppose. Mine are Mr. Nelson, Miss Sarah Ramage, Nancy Baldwin, Mrs. Pannell, and, yes, even Dean Pearl. Whoever your Sweet Briar ghosts may be, they are the people who taught you, inspired you, and in some way shaped you. That process of shaping young women goes on today. It needs to continue at Sweet Briar for a very long time to come. The young women who could and should go to Sweet Briar tomorrow require the nurture and inspiration that Sweet Briar has always supplied. Sweet Briar must be there tomorrow to continue the work that Miss Indie began and from which we, like generations of other Sweet Briar women, have benefitted.

I know that Sweet Briar is an essential part of who I am. Now, having observed the strength, intelligence, courage, and toughness of the women fighting to save Sweet Briar, I have never been more proud of the fact. But pride in the past is not enough. We must do ALL THAT WE CAN to insure Sweet Briar’s future. Please sit down right now and send your pledge–or increase your pledge if possible. (Note: All pledges may be paid over a five-year period.) TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE: please do it now! To donate online, go to www.savingsweetbriar.com or email your pledges to e.smith@alexanderhaas.com. Please address any questions to the Saving Sweet Briar campaign office: 404-832-9210.

Love to you all and many thanks,

Grace Mary

(Grace Mary Garry Oates)

Students' Supreme Court Brief - Filed May 28, 2015

http://www.scribd.com/doc/267012406/Students-Supreme-Court-Brief-in-Support-of-Injunction

Monday, May 25, 2015

Where to Find the Numbers About Sweet Briar College - Dan Gottlieb's Newest Post

http://www.unsolicited.guru/sweet-briar/where-to-find-the-numbers-about-sweet-briar-college/

Sunday, May 24, 2015

Commentary on AG's Filing in Connection with VA Supreme Court Appeal

Here is a short commentary on the AG’s filing in connection with the Virginia Supreme Court appeal for posting to the SBC2.0 website and Facebook page:

Title: Attorney General Decides Not to File a Brief

In my May 16th post I noted that when the Virginia Supreme Court agreed to hear County Attorney Ellen Bowyer’s appeal, it invited the Attorney General to file a brief by May 22. Instead of filing a legal brief, the Attorney General sent a letter to the Clerk of the Court. The letter states that the AG “respectfully elects not to file a brief amicus curiae or participate at oral argument.” It then informs the Court that the parties have participated in two mediation sessions, with another scheduled for May 29. It claims that “the meetings involved candid and productive discussions about the future of Sweet Briar College.” The letter further indicates that the public interest would best be served if the dispute is resolved by agreement rather than litigation, through the mediation process that he has sponsored.

The letter also uses phrases such as “working to foster collaborative communication between the parties” and “to encourage a positive outcome.” It also notes the “limited time” to achieve an agreement.

What does this mean for our legal effort? First, it is a huge plus that the AG is not engaging in a repeat of his performance before Judge Updike. Then, he filed a brief that supported SBC’s legal arguments 1) that SBC is a mere corporation, and thereby subject only to the ordinary business judgment rule that generally prevents judicial second guessing of a board’s decision; and 2) that only the AG, and not the County Attorney, has standing to enforce VA law in this case. Although SBC cited the AG’s earlier brief in the briefs it submitted to the Virginia Supreme Court, the arguments do not pack as much punch as they would have if the AG was stating these positions as his own.

The AG has, however, been very careful here. He is not saying whether or not he still agrees with what he filed before Judge Updike. The letter’s language is neutral in tone. He appears to be telling the Court that his mediation is the best bet for resolving the mess, and perhaps signaling that he would prefer that the Court stay out of it. But, by not filing a brief, this gambit of neutrality will not help SBC. It will not necessarily help us, but it does not help SBC. This is a good thing.

The AG is putting a lot of eggs in the May 29 mediation basket. Whether there actually will be a mediation that day, or not, is not know for sure. It is, after all, the first day of Reunion! I am sure he hopes there is one, and that it finally bears some real fruit so he can signal that the Court ought to delay ruling after the arguments on June 4. Seriously, though, this seems doubtful. The question remains whether it is possible to achieve a negotiated solution. Just this week, the SBC Board VP Elizabeth Wyatt and Board member Nancy Keuffel wrote another op-ed piece stating again the same arguments about how the board had no choice but to vote to close. Saving Sweet Briar, Inc., on the other hand, exists to prevent closure. It is hard to see any middle ground between these diametrically opposed positions.

Georgene Vairo SBC '72

Most recent letter from VA Attorney General to VA Supreme Court

https://savingsweetbriar.com/legal-proceedings/va-attorney-general-letter-to-the-va-supreme-court-re-filing-amicus-brief/

The trust that established Sweet Briar College may be key to whether the school remains open.

http://video.richmond.com/Jeffs-Notes-Saving-Sweet-Briar-29112678

Friday, May 22, 2015

Thursday, May 21, 2015

Trying to Save Sweet Briar from Oblivion

http://www.wsj.com/articles/trying-to-save-sweet-briar-from-oblivion-1432249758

Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Rebuilding Sweet Briar - How I Would Do It

Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Mediation SB talks go long, More Planned

http://valawyersweekly.com/2015/05/19/sweet-briar-talks-go-long-more-planned/

Five Tips to Help Institutions Become More Nimble

http://www.evolllution.com/opinions/avoiding-sweet-briar-tips-institutions-nimble/

The Women who STEMed their way to Power

http://fortune.com/2014/09/22/women-and-stem/

Leah Busque 2001 Time tech 40 - most influential Tech CEOs

http://business.time.com/2013/05/01/time-tech-40-the-ten-most-influential-tech-ceos/slide/leah-busque-taskrabbit/

At Sweet Briar, a Commencement Talk With Power

https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/05/18/sweet-briar-commencement-talk-power
Good comments!

Monday, May 18, 2015

Gifts of Speech, Women's Speeches Aound the World

http://gos.sbc.edu

SBC2point0 website collects reaources to save college

http://www.roanoke.com/news/education/higher_education/sweet-briar-website-collects-resources-to-save-college/article_6a6d6630-60fc-5fb1-8179-c1700e7e69b2.html?mode=jqm

http://www.newsadvance.com/news/local/new-website-acts-as-forum-for-ideas-on-sweet-briar/article_a1ce4c44-fdc5-11e4-9891-a3c00753fa77.html?mode=jqm Same article here by Jessie Pounds

Sweet Briar College among ‘most endangered’ Va. places

http://wtop.com/virginia/2015/05/sweet-briar-college-among-most-endangered-va-places/slide/1/
The designation was announced Monday by Preservation Virginia

Sweet Briar Commencement Speaker Slams Decision To Close School

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/18/sweet-briar-last-commencement_n_7306688.html

Never give in”: Polite defiance marks Sweet Briar graduation ceremony

http://www.c-ville.com/never-give-polite-defiance-marks-sweet-briar-graduation-ceremony/#.VVo_AnBXerU

At SB a Commencement Talk with Power

https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/05/18/sweet-briar-commencement-talk-power

Sunday, May 17, 2015

Youth Dance Recital 20th Anniversary at SB

http://sbc.edu/news/performing-arts/dance/youth-dance-recital-marks-programs-20th-anniversary/

An emotional graduation day at Sweet Briar

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/sweet-briar-celebrates-final-graduation/2015/05/16/89c22bf4-fc06-11e4-9030-b4732caefe81_gallery.html

Reuters Va Women's College Holding Last Commencement

http://news.yahoo.com/virginias-women-sweet-briar-college-holding-last-commencement-100327026.html

We will Rise, previous BoD member Maggie EB Patrick

https://medium.com/@MaggieEBPatrick/mea-culpa-9eda208db193

Graduation is Bittersweet

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/17/us/graduation-is-bittersweet-as-sweet-briar-college-is-likely-closing.html?_r=0

If Only We Had More Like Her by Jay Orsi

http://www.unsolicited.guru/sweet-briar/if-only-we-had-more-like-her/

$29 million Deferred maintenace Farce by Jay Orsi

http://www.unsolicited.guru/sweet-briar/sweet-briars-29-million-deferred-farce/

In Defense of Liberal Arts

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/255390/defense-liberal-arts-victor-davis-hanson

Saturday, May 16, 2015

Jay Orsi: Sarah Clement Cow Money

http://www.unsolicited.guru/sweet-briar/sarah-clement-cowmoney/

Rice timeline on paste-bin

http://67.159.5.242/ip-1/encoded/Oi8vcGFzdGViaW4uY29tL2M2Z0tyNEFl

McAuliffe What If?

http://bearingdrift.com/2015/04/30/just-what-is-mcauliffe-up-to-with-sweet-briar-college/

SBC Commencement Speech 2015

Here is another link to her speech, from Mary Sue...http://www.scribd.com/doc/265535962/Sweet-Briar-Commencement-Speech-2015

Our View- Marching Orders (Donate to SSB now!)

http://www.roanoke.com/opinion/editorials/our-view-marching-orders/article_fb164ef6-06ca-5946-906c-a754297f2d1f.html?mode=jqm

SB is not Va's Problem (read comments refuting this!)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/sweet-briar-is-not-vas-problem/2015/05/15/bd44fdae-fa66-11e4-a47c-e56f4db884ed_story.html. Read Comments refuting this!

College's financial fate echoes woes of other women's schools

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/16/sweet-briar-college-final-commencement-financial-challenge

SB's Last Class, Why all Women's Colleges are Disappearing

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/USA-Update/2015/0516/Sweet-Briar-s-last-class-Why-all-women-colleges-are-disappearing

Tomlinson testifies over Sweet Briar College closing Posted: Apr 16, 2015

http://www.wtvm.com/story/28824073/mayor-tomlinson

El Presidente de SBC no Estar Presente en la Ceremonia de Graduacin

http://www.wdbj7.com/news/noticias-espanol/el-presidente-de-sweet-briar-college-no-estar-presente-en-la-ceremonia-de-graduacin/33052012

Epic graduation speech at imploding college, Calls on graduates not to accept its d Read more: http://uk.businessinsider.com/mayor-teresa-tomlinsons-sweet-briar-graduation-speech

http://uk.businessinsider.com/mayor-teresa-tomlinsons-sweet-briar-graduation-speech-2015-5?r=US

A Commencement Speech that challenges SB Leaders to Referse Course

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2015/05/16/a-commencement-speech-that-challenges-sweet-briars-leaders-to-reverse-course/?postshare=8861431790685905

Sweet Briar's keynote speaker slams closing at commencement

http://news.yahoo.com/bleak-finances-deflating-sweet-briars-pink-bubble-070934024.html

Friday, May 15, 2015

Video of interview with Stacey Sickels Locke and Christine Bump

http://www.wjla.com/articles/2015/05/more-questions-than-answers-on-closing-of-sweet-briar-college-113979.html#.VVa3-9B4iS0.google_plusone_share

How SB Shaped Gen of Women Leaders

http://www.thetakeaway.org/story/how-sweet-briar-college-shaped-generations-women-leaders/

Why are there so few Women in Science?

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/magazine/why-are-there-still-so-few-women-in-science.html?_r=0

Women in Science Tech Engineering and Math

http://www.socwomen.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/fact_12-2007-stem.pdf

Women in STEM Harvard.edu

https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~srugheimer/Women_in_STEM_Resources.html

SB Pres to skip commencement

http://www.wset.com/story/29074586/sweet-briar-college-president-to-skip-commencement

Mass Collaboration

https://hbr.org/2010/10/the-economics-of-mass-collabor

Radio Kojo Namdi Show American University on SB legal

http://thekojonnamdishow.org/audio/#/shows/2015-05-14/sweet-briar/88395/@00:00

Economic Recovery: Women Lose Jobs, Men Find Them

http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2011/07/06/two-years-of-economic-recovery-women-lose-jobs-men-find-them/2/#employment-in-the-recovery

Local Pres Uncertain for SBC Graduation

http://www.newsadvance.com/news/local/president-uncertain-for-sweet-briar-college-graduation-ceremony/article_34681724-fa97-11e4-aa6f-bf70ca1c78d1.html?mode=jqm

SB Not Sure What to Expect for Graduation

http://www.wset.com/story/29071013/sweet-briar-not-sure-what-to-expect-for-graduation

Seniors at SBC Prepare for Emotional Commencement Ceremony

http://www.wsls.com/story/29072323/seniors-at-sweet-briar-prepare-for-an-emotional-commencement-ceremony

NeW Young Women's Leadership Retreat at SBC July30-Aug 2

http://enlightenedwomen.org/young-womens-leadership-retreat/ NeW National Enlightened Women, a conservative university women group

AAUW Solving the Equation: The Variables for Women’s Success in Engineering and Computing

http://www.aauw.org/research/solving-the-equation/

Pew research by Hannah Rosin on Gender Pay Gap

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/04/14/on-equal-pay-day-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-gender-pay-gap/

Thursday, May 14, 2015

Why So Few Women in STEM?

http://www.aauw.org/files/2013/02/Why-So-Few-Women-in-Science-Technology-Engineering-and-Mathematics.pdf

How to Get More Girls Involved in Stem

http://time.com/3835310/girls-stem-school/

a Girl and Her Books on the Loss of SBC

http://www.themillions.com/2015/05/a-girl-and-her-books-on-the-loss-of-sweet-briar-college.html
By Meridith De Avila Khan

Classics Assoc Professor Eric Casey receives Teacher of the Year Award from the Classical Assoc of Va.

http://sbc.edu/news/classics/classics-professor-notches-fourth-teaching-excellence-award/

Learn to Teach Coding, Black Girls Can Code recruiting Target

http://litablog.org/2015/05/learn-to-teach-coding-and-mentor-technology-newbies-in-your-library-or-anywhere/

How JJ Became Pres of SB by Jay Orsi

http://www.unsolicited.guru/sweet-briar/how-james-f-jones-became-president-of-sweet-briar/

USNews College Ranking and stats on SBC

http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/sweet-briar-college-3742/academics

The Case Study in Poor Governance: Transparency Held Hostage

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/case-study-poor-governance-transparency-held-hostage-kathleen-bell

Mary Baldwin changes name to University

http://www.newsleader.com/story/news/local/2015/05/11/mary-baldwin-college-university-name-change-2016/27114453/

Wednesday, May 13, 2015

AG Herring versus the Sweet Briar Stakeholders: A Fable for Our Times

https://nonprofitquarterly.org/policysocial-context/26115-ag-herring-versus-the-sweet-briar-stakeholders-a-fable-for-our-times.html?utm_content=15049579&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

Legal update Va Sup Court accepts Briefs in SB College case

http://www.newsadvance.com/news/local/va-supreme-court-accepts-appeal-briefs-in-sweet-briar-college/article_7a1b529e-f903-11e4-80e1-cfcf7ed2f924.html?mode=jqm

Letter to SB Prez to stay away from Graduation

http://www.c-ville.com/prof-sweet-briar-prez-stay-away-graduation-day/#.VVPXy3BXerW

Graduation live stream available online at sbc.edu/live.

http://www.newsadvance.com/new_era_progress/news/tradition-the-focus-of-sweet-briar-graduation-saturday/article_fe3599e2-f9a6-11e4-a153-079b5dcd32e9.html?mode=jqm

graduation this Saturday starting at 10 a.m.

Challenges Facing Higher Education

2) For Context : State schools: funding is being reduced, (U Cal 9 campuses -14%: 1990 37% budget from state, by 2004 dropped to 23%, Pen State -8%: 21% 1990 to 13% 2002, state funds at all public institutions 10% dropping from 46% to 36% from 1981-2000, students asked to pay more in tuition and fees each year, for context. http://engage.uci.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/Challenges-Facing-Higher-Ed-

Higher education.org Drop out rates and more

http://www.highereducation.org/reports/learning/learning5.shtml

National Center for Education Stats on college enrollment

http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=372

Va. attorney general in tricky political spot over Sweet Briar closure

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/va-attorney-general-in-tricky-political-spot-over-sweet-briar-closure/2015/05/12/56212e3e-f40a-11e4-bcc4-e8141e5eb0c9_story.html

May 14 event, Krystal Maddox field hockey asst coach, Sweet Briar community rallies to bring awareness to college's plight

http://www.wset.com/story/29044010/sweet-briar-community-rallies-to-bring-awareness-to-colleges-plight. Amherst Co., VA - The Sweet Briar community isn't going down without a fight. Assistant field hockey coach for the college, Krystal Mattox, is one of the many who is fighting to keep Sweet Briar open and to continue to raise awareness of the college's situation.

On Thursday, Mat 14th B Psi Entertainment and Yellow Sub in Lynchburg are joining together for a night of fun to celebrate the community, a community that Mattox says wouldn't be complete without Sweet Briar.

Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Cow Money on beingunlocked.com, Saving Sweet Briar!

http://beingunlocked.com/tag/saving-sweet-briar/

Dan Gottleib SB doesn't have to Close roanoke.com

http://www.roanoke.com/opinion/commentary/gottlieb-sweet-briar-doesn-t-have-to-close-here-s/article_7aef442b-ba9d-561c-8fe9-5800b1046f1f.html?mode=jqm

Audio recording secret meeting with JJ and Shank

http://followthemoneyatsweetbriar.com

Jay Orsi: That Awkward Moment when SB Canvelled an ad Campaign

http://www.unsolicited.guru/sweet-briar/that-awkward-moment-when-sweet-briar-cancelled-an-ad-campaign/

Sweet Briar College Bids Goodbye....

http://www.ischoolguide.com/articles/11794/20150512/sweet-briar-college-denies-whistleblowers-fraud-allegations.htm

Judge Grants Sweet Briar Limited Relief from Temporary Injunction

http://www.wset.com/story/29035212/judge-grants-sweet-briar-limited-relief-from-temporary-injunction

JYA goes to Holllins with restrictions

http://www.roanoke.com/news/education/higher_education/sweet-briar-s-study-abroad-programs-go-to-hollins-university/article_780898be-d385-52dc-b32f-4daa86fd78a1.html?mode=jqm

Order allows Sweet Briar College to dispose of some assets

http://www.newsadvance.com/news/local/order-allows-sweet-briar-college-to-dispose-of-some-assets/article_a331c726-f83b-11e4-91ff-a338c6bd7d76.html?mode=jqm

Women's College Coalition Leaders On Sweet Briar Closing; Why women's colleges continue to be a vital option in higher education

http://www.streetinsider.com/dr/news.php?id=10549698. Great stats! And more
Consider these facts about women's colleges and their alumnae:
• 53% increase in applications by female undergraduates to women's colleges from 2004 to 2012.
• 76% retention for women's colleges, higher than at co-ed private colleges.
• Nearly 50% of women's college graduates earn advanced degrees.
• 81% of women's college graduates felt their college was extremely or very effective in preparing them for their first job.
• 30% of Business Week's 50 women who are rising starts in corporate America are graduates of women's colleges.
• 33% of Fortune 1000 Board Members are graduates of a women's college.
• 25% of current women Congress members attended a women's college.
• 20% of Black Enterprise Magazine's 20 most powerful African American women in corporate America graduated from women's colleges.
• 14% of women Cabinet members in state government attended a women's college.

Bedford Judge Makes Candid Statements about SBC

http://www.wdbj7.com/news/local/bedford-judge-makes-candid-statements-about-sweet-briar-legal-fight/32947554

Monday, May 11, 2015

Comparitive Enrollment Yields in Liberal Arts Colleges

http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/2015/01/21/liberal-arts-colleges-where-the-most-accepted-students-enroll

Judge Makes Recommendations/ Amends Order

ttp://www.wsls.com/story/29031264/judge-makes-recommendations-for-changes-to-sweet-briar-college. Legal update. Look at link to actual document. http://wx.wsls.com/documents/SweetBriarOrders.pd

Also: http://www.wdbj7.com/news/local/lynchburg-bedford/judge-amends-order-in-sweet-briar-college-case/32931614#.VVD1TLypTEA.twitter

Grant to request: supporting Innovation in Higher Education

http://www.ed.gov/blog/2015/05/supporting-innovation-in-higher-education-through-first-in-the-world/

Donor Rights M. Freuhauf

http://www.newsadvance.com/opinion/letters_to_editor/letters-to-the-editor-for-thursday-may/article_1ae8b8ca-f426-11e4-ba43-3fd04bad86f2.html?mode=jqm

Video Senior Seminar Lindsey Profenno '15, An Architectural Timelin

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HYGdhVVtj7I

SSB to Hold Alternate Free Events for Alumni Weekend

http://www.nbc29.com/story/29023631/saving-sweet-briar-to-hold-alternate-free-events-for-alumni-weekend

Everett Stern Letter to FBI

http://tacticalrabbit.com/fbi-letter-sweet-briar-college/

Jay Orsi Partial Retraction on Did SB CFO Miss a Tiny, Huge Detail

http://www.unsolicited.guru/sweet-briar/did-sweet-briars-cfo-miss-a-tiny-a-k-a-huge-detail/ Partial Retraction

Jay Orsi: My Take On Everett Stern

http://www.unsolicited.guru/sweet-briar/my-take-on-everett-stern/

Jay Orsi: Does SB have Enough Money to Keep Operating!

http://www.unsolicited.guru/sweet-briar/does-sweet-briar-have-enough-money-to-keep-operating/

(YES!)

Update Private Firm Ivestigates SB Closure Finds Fraud

http://www.nbc29.com/story/29023543/private-firm-investigates-sweet-briar-closure-finds-fraud

Sunday, May 10, 2015

Alumnae and Parent angels provide ice cream to students!!

Becky Lambert

19 hrs ·

Just want to give a huge holla, holla to all of the alumnae and parent angels that sent Sluggo's Ice Cream to campus today to help provide some sweet stress relief for our beloved community and a nice little break from studying and taking exams. ‪#‎SaveSweetBriar‬
See the whole gallery here: http://beckylambert.com/…/sluggos-ice-cream-exam-

Push for SB Inquiry Gaining Steam

http://www.fredericksburg.com/news/va_md_dc/push-for-sweet-briar-inquiry-gaining-steam/article_d656fa46-538b-5682-a02c-dbdb82f9d7fe.html?mode=jqm

2010 WSJ article on alumna Anne Poulet

http://sbc.edu/news/uncategorized/alumna-featured-wall-street-journal/

Alumna Featured in Wall Street Journal

December 17, 2010

Anne Litle Poulet ’64, director of the Frick Collection in New York City, is featured in a Wall Street Journal article marking the 75th anniversary of the house museum.

The Frick, considered one of New York City’s cultural treasures, is housed in the early 20th-century mansion of industrialist Henry Clay Frick, who bequeathed to the public his collection of exceptional Western European art. The collection has since been preserved and expanded.

Poulet has directed the museum since 2003. The Journal article chronicles some of the highlights of her tenure, which

Legislators urge Attorney General to take stronger stance in closure of Sweet Brair College

http://www.newsadvance.com/news/local/legislators-urge-attorney-general-to-take-stronger-stance-in-closure/article_d9e148ea-f5e4-11e4-8f61-c3e8c2f96610.html?mode=jqm. Read comments as well.

World News TV coverage on SB

World News from Fox .....Mar 13 and April 1

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fu35yTLS81E. Mar 13

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aN-in5Ls3B4. April 1

You tube Blank Cup and Cup Songs

PS: Blank Cup, googled Blank Cup Sweet Briar: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mslGXa2g7LI

Cup Song: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sRn1Weni6nc

You tube Voices from SB Chronicle of Higher Learning

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yZ14yXKBdxc Well Done, moving......

Private Firm Investigates SB Closure:Everett Stern; and you tube video

http://www.nbc29.com/story/29023543/private-firm-investigates-sweet-briar-closure-finds-fraud

E. Stern press Conference Video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wpQubd39yDE

Michael Carl Hayes letter to Wyatt posted in roanoke.com Entreprenurial Leadership Could Save Sweet Briar

http://www.roanoke.com/opinion/commentary/hayes-entreprenurial-leadership-could-save-sweet-briar/article_8ff275ff-94af-512c-80a9-4aa2980b3ff4.html?mode=jqm

Saturday, May 9, 2015

Indiana Fletcher Williams : a Strong Willed Woman

http://www.newsadvance.com/lifestyles/sweet-briar-s-indiana-fletcher-williams-a-strong-willed-woman/article_fdcaac82-f5c2-11e4-8349-8b9c1d52c334.html?mode=jqm

Documentary on Saving Sweet Briar, The Sweet Life

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/annatenbensel/the-sweet-life-documentary-pre-production/posts/1173500 Documentary on Saving Sweet Briar in preproduction by Anna ten Bensel '17

Girls Just Want To Code

http://www.cnet.com/news/girls-just-want-to-code-solving-for-xx/

Jay Orsi: Did SB CFO miss a Tiny Huge Detail?

http://www.unsolicited.guru/uncategorized/did-sweet-briars-cfo-miss-a-tiny-a-k-a-huge-detail/

Our view: Let's make a deal? A glimmer of hope....

http://www.roanoke.com/opinion/editorials/our-view-let-s-make-a-deal/article_c07743ff-2f61-519e-86db-350fac2ca732.html?mode=jqm

Interesting article focusing on the White and Case offer to help restructure the debt, original refusal, now SB maybe interested.......BIG Problem is the Saving Sweet Briar part of the story not presented, as says there is no plan for SB2.0. Contact roanoke.com

Obssessing Over Sweet Briar, ROI and student loan default rates for profit vs non profit

http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/2015/03/28/3640393_john-a-tures-obsessing-over-sweet.html?rh=1 Very interesting about return on investment for education and student loan default rates, merits more investigation, an IMPORTANT strength for SBC.

Join the Fight

http://www.chattanoogan.com/2015/5/7/299979/Join-The-Fight-To-Save-Sweet-Briar-.aspx

Harvard Business School to Target Women's Colleges

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2015/4/8/hbs-women-colleges-recruitment/

Friday, May 8, 2015

NPR A Bitter Good Bye

http://www.capradio.org/news/npr/story?storyid=405194244

Secrets in the SB Seal

http://beingunlocked.com/2015/05/whats-in-a-seal-secrets-in-the-sweet-briar-college-seal-worth-bringing-back/

Talks Must Be Backed Up by Action

http://www.newsadvance.com/opinion/editorials/talks-must-be-backed-up-with-action/article_545a429e-f4f4-11e4-8627-83941b85aa48.html?mode=jqm

SBC Engineering Students Figure out their Next Step

http://www.newsadvance.com/news/local/sweet-briar-college-engineering-students-figure-out-their-next-steps/article_f74a3ed8-f52a-11e4-b165-0b608dbf0a9e.html?mode=jqm

SBC faces one of Two Lawsuits in Bedford Court

http://www.wsls.com/story/29010116/sweet-briar-college-faces-one-of-two-lawsuits-in-bedford-court

Thursday, May 7, 2015

Making charitable donations to tax-exempt organizations in the commonwealth of Virginia could actually be risky.

http://www.dailyprogress.com/opinion/opinion-letter-cautious-on-giving-to-sweet-briar/article_a8879d2e-f42e-11e4-886f-f7f785a175e2.html?mode=jqm

Letter to AG Herring

http://www.lfsarrouf.com/2015/05/07/open-letter-to-virginia-atty-general-herring/

Faculty Meeting Part D

http://pastebin.com/CaGLeV4e

SBC Honors Summer Research Fellows

http://sbc.edu/news/academics/honors-summer-research-fellows-announced-2/

SB Women Look to their Futures

http://www.roanoke.com/news/virginia/sweet-briar-women-look-to-their-futures-as-year-ends/article_bcbd9a49-d498-57ab-b383-f45b51d38003.html?mode=jqm

SBC 2015 Awards Convocation

http://sbc.edu/news/academics/tears-cheers-dominate-2015-awards-convocation/

College closings and Funancial Aid

http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/paying-for-college/articles/2015/05/06/what-to-know-about-college-closings-and-financial-aid

Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Faculty hearing 1pm with Judge Updike

http://www.newsadvance.com/news/local/ag-s-office-sweet-briar-meeting-an-open-and-candid/article_70a6fc94-f413-11e4-8cad-831eb18ba01e.html?mode=jqm

SB Meeting at AG Office

http://www.richmond.com/news/article_892aa00c-8a5c-590f-b0d2-64aef81e1848.html

AG Holds Meeting to Discuss Options

http://wric.com/2015/05/06/attorney-general-holds-meeting-to-discuss-options-for-sweet-briar-college/

All Women's College Means Business

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/betsie-gambel/all-womens-liberal-arts-c_b_7088052.html?utm_campaign=naytev&utm_content=554a89cee4b025d09b728dd9

Basic Truths about Non Profits

http://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2015/5/6/revealed-in-the-sweet-briar-mess-basic-truths-about-nonprofi.html#.VUp07J3vyrs.twitter. I like Monti's anger on the talkes set up by AG Hereing, "Does he (AG) think there is any middle ground here? "

AG office to Host Meeting

http://www.newsadvance.com/news/local/attorney-general-s-office-to-host-meeting-between-sweet-briar/article_ab29a1d8-f38b-11e4-a9c2-2fe043a30710.html?mode=jqm

Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Peter Atkinson HS 2000 blog

http://revcoachatkinson.blogspot.fr/2015/05/the-deafening-silent-sighs.html

SSB and SB meeting 9am Wed , May 6 in AG Office

http://www.newsadvance.com/news/local/parties-in-sweet-briar-college-case-expected-to-meet-wednesday/article_6d0d36ee-f359-11e4-b18a-dbe381ec7784.html?mode=jqm

Chris Novak Harvard MBA Response to Wyatt/Taylor Letter

Chris Novak
As a communications and development professional, I was stunned to learn that Sweet Briar flunked their feasibility study, after raising $110 million less than 10 years ago with a dynamic president and board. This speaks not so much to alumnae capacity, as it does about recent administrations' total failure to do one of their most critical jobs...continuously build relationships with potential donors to secure the schools future. At most great schools that is job #1, and the next campaign would have been planned as soon as the last was finished.
Without a savvy president (or at least a development director) no one seemed to know that even restricted funding of scholarships can be the fastest way to take the pressure operating budget and lessen the trap of discounted tuition. Without a savvy admission director, working with a strong alumni network, no one seemed to know the techniques that increase yield, or the easy to tap
pipeline of high-paying students from abroad.
It's a failure of analysis, a failure of imagination,
and, as evidenced by how this closing has been handled, a shocking failure of basic communications strategy that in effect insults great women of Sweet Briar.
New, fresh, leadership should have a chance to take the $10 mill alumnae have put on the table as "the means to implement a long-term plan that might potentially allow the college to endure".

Chris Novak, Harvard MBA in comments to original article:

http://www.richmond.com/opinion/their-opinion/guest-columnists/article_6684faad-1a48-59ff-ac0e-23e023a4b3fd.html

Intelligence-firm director jumps into Sweet Briar College fray - NewsAdvance.com : News - Lynchburg, Virginia Area

SB Supporters Call for more Transperancy in Finances

http://www.roanoke.com/news/virginia/sweet-briar-college-supporters-call-for-transparency-in-finances/article_d0c7ed01-b82e-58af-b5f5-0e31dc5413aa.html?mode=jqm

SB Case puts Pressure on Trustees Nationwide

http://m.chronicle.com/article/Sweet-Briar-s-Demise-Puts/229877/?key=GzhycwdlbiFDYn9iYzcUZT4GPSRqMEh9anJJbXF9blFSFw%3D%3D

Ten reasons You Should Go to a Women's College Because Girl Power is a Real Thing

http://www.bustle.com/articles/76069-10-reasons-you-should-go-to-a-womens-college-because-girl-power-is-a-real-thing

Why I Chose to Attend a Women's College (Mount Holyoke)

http://angloyankophile.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/why-i-chose-to-attend-womens-college.html

Advantages of a Women's College blog

http://advantages-of-a-womens-college.blogspot.fr

Clement and Bowles: Closing the college isn't justified

http://m.richmond.com/opinion/their-opinion/guest-columnists/article_a6764e23-2a28-5237-9ccf-e7e626914049.html?mode=jqm. In Response to Wyatt, Tayor and more!

Monday, May 4, 2015

Atomic Insights Rod Adams Video talk to Engineering Club videotaped, day of closure announcement

http://atomicinsights.com/nuclear-energy-tool-to-empower-society-and-address-atmospheric-chemistry-changes/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AtomicInsights+%28Atomic+Insights%29 rod Adams Aromic Insights Video taped talk to the Engineering Club at SBC the day of the closure announcement...and his commentary and support.

Facts on Women in Congress

http://www.cawp.rutgers.edu/fast_facts/levels_of_office/Congress-CurrentFacts.php
Center for American Women and Politics At Rutgers

Six Reasons You should Definitely Apply to an all Women's College- Teen Vogue

http://www.teenvogue.com/advice/school-advice/2015-03/apply-to-all-girls-school

A High Debt Load, the Kiss of Death

http://www.baconsrebellion.com/2015/05/beware-the-bonds.html

Did Board Explore Every Option?

http://www.newsadvance.com/news/local/sbc-did-board-explore-every-option/article_97201158-f12f-11e4-a33a-c3ab82400e48.html?mode=jqm

Liberty's rise and the fall of Sweet Briar- Opinion

http://www.dailyprogress.com/opinion/opinion-editorial-liberty-s-rise-and-the-fall-of-sweet/article_bd8b49d2-f0f5-11e4-a58c-9b6d6c5516ce.html?mode=jqm

SBC asking court to sell off Limited Assets Despite 6 month Injunction- the Horses!

http://www.wset.com/story/28971211/sweet-briar-college-asks-to-sell-off-limited-assets-despite-6-month-injunction

Thurman '76: Sweet Briar's Sleepwalking Leaders

http://www.newsadvance.com/opinion/community_viewpoint/thurman-sweet-briar-s-sleepwalking-leaders/article_cc462668-f037-11e4-ad9a-b7f7ce9c7faf.html?mode=jqm. dbbie Thurman '76

Gottlieb: SB doesn't have to Close

http://www.roanoke.com/opinion/commentary/gottlieb-sweet-briar-doesn-t-have-to-close-here-s/article_7aef442b-ba9d-561c-8fe9-5800b1046f1f.html?mode=jqm

Women’s Colleges Evolving to Remain Rock Solid, Relevant

http://diverseeducation.com/article/72087/
Hollin Unifersity, Spelman College and more

Facts and Figures about SaveSweetBriar

http://www.lfsarrouf.com/2015/03/11/some-facts-figures-about-savesweetbriar-college-you-may-not-have-known/ vaue of Women's Education and Timeline of Saving Sweet Briar by Lenora “Lion” Farrington-Sarrouf ’94 more info on our alumna author: http://www.lfsarrouf.com

Sunday, May 3, 2015

Women's Colleges Launchpad to a life of Leadership and Success

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stephanie-mitchell-hughes/womens-colleges-the-launchpad-to-a-life-of-leadership-and-service_b_6925180.html

Jay Orsi /Dan Gottleib two new posts!

New Jay Orsi posts:

http://blog.jayorsi.com/sweet-briar/injunction-junction-whats-your-function/ by jay orsi

http://blog.jayorsi.com/sweet-briar/the-deficit-the-endowment-and-the-importance-of-context-the-sweet-briar-story-part-4/ By Dan Gottleib

Bowen and Shapiro: The sad saga of Sweet Briar Colleged

http://www.richmond.com/opinion/their-opinion/guest-columnists/article_2c5be6ed-80c8-5198-90b0-ee144a550d14.html. Dan Gottleib , Molly Phemister and more strongly disagree in comments!

Sunday, May 31, 2015