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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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1 posted on 03/05/2015 2:13:34 PM PST by Varsity Flight
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To: Varsity Flight

Bad link. And Breaking News? Really?


2 posted on 03/05/2015 2:16:54 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (With Great Freedom comes Great Responsibility.)
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To: Varsity Flight

Peak leftism.


3 posted on 03/05/2015 2:16:55 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Varsity Flight

Your linky is stinky!

Post a real link please. i want to read this


4 posted on 03/05/2015 2:18:50 PM PST by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: Varsity Flight

http://www.businessinsider.com/mark-cuban-sweet-briar-college-college-debt-bubble-crisis-2015-3


5 posted on 03/05/2015 2:19:31 PM PST by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: Varsity Flight

Come on and collapse already! My kid will hit college age in four years. I would like to have some newer/better/cheaper options to consider.


6 posted on 03/05/2015 2:19:38 PM PST by catbertz
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To: Responsibility2nd

http://www.businessinsider.com/mark-cuban-sweet-briar-college-college-debt-bubble-crisis-2015-3


7 posted on 03/05/2015 2:20:49 PM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: catbertz

You want a newer/better/cheaper option?

DREAM on.

I mean that. Literally. Have your kid renounce citizenship, move to Mexico, illegally cross and BOOM!

Golden.


8 posted on 03/05/2015 2:23:19 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (With Great Freedom comes Great Responsibility.)
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To: Red Badger

Yep, thanks, not sure why it did not come through.

http://www.businessinsider.com/mark-cuban-sweet-briar-college-college-debt-bubble-crisis-2015-3


9 posted on 03/05/2015 2:25:04 PM PST by Varsity Flight (Extortion-Care is is the Government Work-Camp: Arbeitsziehungslager)
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To: Varsity Flight

Well we have to keep liberal college professors in lattes.


10 posted on 03/05/2015 2:25:46 PM PST by Tzimisce
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To: Varsity Flight

Do the students enrolled in this college like comfortable shoes? Do they dance with each other-exclusively? Do they wear clitoral rings?


11 posted on 03/05/2015 2:28:38 PM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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To: Responsibility2nd

Sadly, I’m well aware that crime pays these days.


12 posted on 03/05/2015 2:29:30 PM PST by catbertz
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To: Paladin2
Peak leftism.

Well played.

13 posted on 03/05/2015 2:29:51 PM PST by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.com)
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To: catbertz

Have him consider trade school. The average age for an electrical line man is the mid fifties. These guys make six figures.


14 posted on 03/05/2015 2:29:53 PM PST by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: Varsity Flight

With Sweetbriar closing what will all the Muffy’s and Buffy’s do?


15 posted on 03/05/2015 2:31:14 PM PST by Rebelbase
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To: catbertz

Cuban right on on this one. Listened to him live about an hour ago.


16 posted on 03/05/2015 2:31:47 PM PST by Varsity Flight (Extortion-Care is is the Government Work-Camp: Arbeitsziehungslager)
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To: Varsity Flight

It is an all female liberal arts college with an 82% acceptance rate.Total cost to attend one year is $47k and they can make ends meet.

It is a place to store dumb/unmotivated chicks of privilege after boarding school.

Most notable alumni is former Alexandria VA mayor Patsy Ticer and actress Diana Muldaur of Star Trek TNG.


17 posted on 03/05/2015 2:32:03 PM PST by Reaganez
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To: catbertz

Here is a better option, but it’s not necessarily cheap:

HILLSDALE.


18 posted on 03/05/2015 2:35:43 PM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Red Badger

Mr. Cuban is only focused on one aspect of the problems facing American colleges. One other is the collapse of the middle class. There won’t be enough middle class kids to fill all those colleges. Oh, and one more thing, what will happen when the debt bubble collapses and the government begins to print trillions to “cover” its debt? All bets are off.


19 posted on 03/05/2015 2:37:18 PM PST by rcofdayton (.)
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To: Rebelbase

State Colleges or State Universities?


20 posted on 03/05/2015 2:45:29 PM PST by Maine Mariner
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