Sweet Briar sounds like it should be the name to a long lost Ben & Jerry's flavor. It feels graham cracker based, something with a raspberry or strawberry swirl. Mmm, tasty Sweet Briar!
Except Sweet Briar is apparently a community located in Virginia, one completely lacking in ice cream deliciousness. It is also home to Sweet Briar College, a single sex school of 250 students and 100 faculty that announced in March of 2015 that it would close its doors at the end of the summer session due to huge financial burdens. This impending doom brought alumnae, students, and faculty together to refashion the school. Out went the board and president. In came new blood.
It worked. Things came around. According to USA Today, Sweet Briar College announced that 1,099 prospective students have applied to the school this year, up from 751 in 2015. Money is flowing in. Things are looking up.
Tony Lilly, a Sweet Briar English professor, is hopeful. "There is a sense of security, but I think that’s tempered by an acute sense of the precariousness of liberal arts education in general," says Lilly. "I think one of the lessons [...] is that if it can happen to Sweet Briar it can happen to anybody."
So you're saying Sweet Briar flavored ice cream could still happen then? That's how I'm reading all this.
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