Sweet Briar College, a private university in Virginia announced this month they would be closing their doors due to financial strain, but its faculty passed a resolution barring the shut down Monday night.
The school’s administrators l was quoted saying the class of 2015 would be the last to graduate from the 100-year-old school, but 65 faculty members called an emergency meeting Monday night declaring they refused to let the school become a piece of history.
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Sweet Briar College faculty passes resolution opposing closure
March 17, 2015
Steve Helber
FILE – This Nov. 24, 2014, file photo, shows the Phi Kappa Psi house at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va. Greek organizations at the school have until Friday, Jan. 16, 2015, to agree to new drinking rules as a condition for ending a temporary ban on social activities, which UVa. President Teresa A. Sullivan imposed following a November Rolling Stone article describing a campus culture that fosters violence against women. The article was later discredited by the magazine’s editors. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)
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