{"id":3756,"date":"2015-03-05T07:27:26","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T07:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/?p=3756"},"modified":"2015-03-04T17:28:41","modified_gmt":"2015-03-04T17:28:41","slug":"sweet-briar-college-closing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/2015\/03\/05\/sweet-briar-college-closing\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet Briar College &#8211; Closing"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3757\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3757\" style=\"width: 367px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3757\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-03-04 at 12.11.44 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/03\/Screen-Shot-2015-03-04-at-12.11.44-PM.png\" width=\"367\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/03\/Screen-Shot-2015-03-04-at-12.11.44-PM.png 367w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/03\/Screen-Shot-2015-03-04-at-12.11.44-PM-300x192.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 367px) 100vw, 367px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3757\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sweet Briar Closing after 114 years<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sweet Briar College &#8211; a small liberal arts college for young ladies located in rural Virginia, is closing this coming August.<\/p>\n<p>They had a number of challenges &#8211; a small endowment, declining enrollment, and increasing costs associated with filling their classes.<\/p>\n<p>This wasn&#8217;t unexpected &#8211; the college&#8217;s leadership had been wrestling with financial challenges for a period of time. \u00a0However, it still is a shock to their students and all their alumnae. \u00a0They had a recognizable name and a history spanning over 100 years &#8211; but those won&#8217;t keep the doors open.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What does this have to do with the &#8216;Bash?&#8221; you loyal 10 might ask? \u00a0Nothing&#8230;I hope. \u00a0But we all need to be aware that we can&#8217;t sit by on the sidelines and settle for status quo when it comes to <strong>our<\/strong> college. \u00a0If we aren&#8217;t growing and getting stronger, we&#8217;re going in the other direction.<\/p>\n<p>The Grunge prefers the former and hope you&#8217;re onboard.<\/p>\n<p>To refer a student to Wabash, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wabash.edu\/alumni\/student\/refer\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To support Wabash, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wabash.edu\/giving\/give\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sweet Briar College &#8211; a small liberal arts college for young ladies located in rural Virginia, is closing this coming August. They had a number of challenges &#8211; a small endowment, declining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/03\/Screen-Shot-2015-03-04-at-12.11.44-PM.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3758,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3756\/revisions\/3758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}