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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Bad link. And Breaking News? Really?
Peak leftism.
Your linky is stinky!
Post a real link please. i want to read this
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.
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.
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
Well we have to keep liberal college professors in lattes.
Do the students enrolled in this college like comfortable shoes? Do they dance with each other-exclusively? Do they wear clitoral rings?
Sadly, I’m well aware that crime pays these days.
Well played.
Have him consider trade school. The average age for an electrical line man is the mid fifties. These guys make six figures.
With Sweetbriar closing what will all the Muffy’s and Buffy’s do?
Cuban right on on this one. Listened to him live about an hour ago.
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.
Here is a better option, but it’s not necessarily cheap:
HILLSDALE.
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.
State Colleges or State Universities?
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