SWEET BRIAR, Va. (AP) – If Sweet Briar College lives on this fall, a contingent of faculty members is staying on to educate students who return to campus.
Local media reports that June 30 is the end of many teaching contracts, and faculty is deciding now whether to hang in or look elsewhere.
A court hearing is scheduled in Bedford on Monday on a local commonwealth attorney’s bid to block the scheduled August closing of the 114-year-old women’s college.
In early May, leaders of the liberal arts college cited insurmountable financial challenges as the reason for the college’s closure.
But that claim has been challenged by alumnae, students and faculty. They question whether the college’s finances are as dire as they have been portrayed.
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