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This is just the start of the college implosion
businessinsider.com ^ | m. cuban

Posted on 03/05/2015 2:13:34 PM PST by Varsity Flight

A 114-year-old college that's closing its doors may have to give more than $50 million back to donors After 114 years, Sweet Briar College revealed this week that it's closing after the spring 2015 semester, an abrupt announcement that shocked students, alumni, and many people active in higher education.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: academia; collegedebtbubble; collegesclose; sbc; sweetbriar; sweetbriarcollege
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To: Paladin2

How could this happen? Dey so smart!


41 posted on 03/05/2015 4:33:13 PM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: Fiji Hill

I’m sitting here with an episode of brain fog, because I can’t recall my niece’s major/minor.

One of them was biochemistry, I think...she was heavily into the sciences.


42 posted on 03/05/2015 4:33:17 PM PST by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
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To: Varsity Flight

The left’s incubator of their indoctrination of mush minds implosion, whats there not to like ?
Unions using the power they once had.
Main Stream Media’s monopoly choke hold on the minds of Americans and not being held accountable of their lies seem to be manifesting cracks in it’s Teflon shell.


43 posted on 03/05/2015 4:35:28 PM PST by American Constitutionalist (The Keystone Pipeline Project : build it already Congress !)
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To: Varsity Flight

Here’s a Real World scenario: Let’s say that you are 22 years old, and you just graduated from college with degrees in Humanities, Applied Ethics and Philosophy. Your parents paid a lot of money to send you to a “good” college.

Now let’s say that your friend dropped out of high school and got a GED. Then he used his own brainpower and mechanical aptitude to learn how to rebuild cars from the chassis up. Especially high-end classic cars. Which one of these dudes do you think is making the most money right now?


44 posted on 03/05/2015 4:36:20 PM PST by jespasinthru (Proud Member of the Vast, Right-Wing Conspracy)
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To: Varsity Flight

To be followed by the implosion in the student loan debt.

But not to worry, the Dems made a boatload of money in both cases.


45 posted on 03/05/2015 4:36:47 PM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: SaraJohnson

Well, it’s too late to fire any economists on the staff.


46 posted on 03/05/2015 4:37:51 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2

Does anyone get the sense that the left’s world is about to implode like a House of Cards in all directions and we are hearing the screeching howls of the demons ?
That they know all of it is coming down and they know that if they go down that they are not going down alone.
The left is eating their own, the media is in a feeding frenzy like sharks to expose Hillary, no circling the wagons to save her for the sake of their own hides.
Now we here that the learning leftist centers of indoctrination, liberal collages and universities are in financial trouble.
Can Hollywood be next ? Fincial trouble because they won’t make movies that Americans want ?
Is the Brian Williams episode of lying be a opening of cracks in the MSM’s deception ?


47 posted on 03/05/2015 4:53:51 PM PST by American Constitutionalist (The Keystone Pipeline Project : build it already Congress !)
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To: CatherineofAragon

It’s refreshing to see there are those who are mentoring our future generations with wisdom and gives us hope of our future.
Good to see that you and other relatives raised her up right.
See potential of her being a leader in our country.


48 posted on 03/05/2015 5:08:40 PM PST by American Constitutionalist (The Keystone Pipeline Project : build it already Congress !)
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To: Varsity Flight

Too many second rate colleges teaching useless crap - too few students to fill expensive seats. Big shakedown coming...


49 posted on 03/05/2015 5:15:14 PM PST by GOPJ (Comrade Thug - please don't hurt me for disagreeing... I lived in a free country once..)
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To: CatherineofAragon
I can’t recall my niece’s major/minor. One of them was biochemistry, I think...she was heavily into the sciences.

That's a tough major. She must be smart!

50 posted on 03/05/2015 5:31:16 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: Fiji Hill

Much more so than I am, I know that much, LOL.


51 posted on 03/05/2015 5:39:17 PM PST by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
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To: American Constitutionalist

Thank you very much, American Constitutionalist.

She’s a blessing to the family.


52 posted on 03/05/2015 5:40:31 PM PST by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
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To: catbertz

100 Million Asian kids want a US education and will pay for it.


53 posted on 03/05/2015 5:53:53 PM PST by Mike Darancette (Not deniablse = Not falsifiable = Not science = Not even wrong.)
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To: Varsity Flight

Along the same lines from Time

http://time.com/3720815/college-costs-parent-dissatisfaction/


54 posted on 03/05/2015 6:23:50 PM PST by PAR35
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To: Steve_Seattle
The only people in our colleges will be the sons of Saudi princes and upper-level Chinese bureaucrats.

Sounds like the SMU students I've met in the last couple of years. Saudis and Chinese. Still some Anglo sorority and frat types from the bubble, but they are too busy doing drugs and partying for me to run across them.

55 posted on 03/05/2015 6:27:33 PM PST by PAR35
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To: Varsity Flight

So does Hillary Clinton and Hussein have to give back their donor monies? They are fundraising hard, neither actually will run.


56 posted on 03/05/2015 7:33:00 PM PST by Chickensoup (Leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS

Sweet Briar was not a lesbian college.


57 posted on 03/05/2015 7:33:57 PM PST by Chickensoup (Leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
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To: Varsity Flight

Only giving back 50 mil? I read they have 94 mil in endowments. Where does the rest go?


58 posted on 03/05/2015 7:38:56 PM PST by kalee
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To: Rebelbase

The other VA women’s colleges, Mary Baldwin, Randolph Macon Women’s, and Hollings, have opened registration for them and plan to take Sweet Briar students in.


59 posted on 03/05/2015 7:41:27 PM PST by kalee
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To: American Constitutionalist

“Does anyone get the sense that the left’s world is about to implode like a House of Cards in all directions and we are hearing the screeching howls of the demons ?
That they know all of it is coming down and they know that if they go down that they are not going down alone.”

2008, theft

2009, theft

And successive QEs

No more Moral Hazzard, no more morals.


60 posted on 03/05/2015 8:02:25 PM PST by Varsity Flight (Extortion-Care is is the Government Work-Camp: Arbeitsziehungslager)
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