Sweet Briar College
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Sweet Briar College is a liberal arts
women's college
in Sweet Briar
, Virginia
, about 12 miles (19 km) north of Lynchburg, Virginia
. The school's Latin motto translates as: "She who has earned the rose may bear it."
The college is on 3250 acre donated by the founding family of Indiana Fletcher Williams.
and his family. Fletcher was a 19th century teacher, businessman, and mayor of Lynchburg. His wife, Maria Crawford, is credited with naming the land Sweet Briar. By the mid-19th century, Fletcher had between 80 and 100 slaves at the plantation. After their emancipation
in 1865, several continued to work for pay and live at Sweet Briar. On Elijah Fletcher's death, his daughter, Indiana, inherited the plantation. When she passed in 1900, she willed the land and much of her assets to starting a college for women. The reason for it becoming a women's college was because of her daughter, Daisy. Daisy died young because of genetic disease, so she never got to attend college. apparently the disease was genetic and Daisy's father also had the disease.
. The college's architecture is dominated by the work of Ralph Adams Cram
, who also lent his architectural expertise to the campuses of Princeton University
and West Point
, among others. The campus property also includes the Sweet Briar plantation burial ground, in which upwards of sixty slaves are buried; according to some, an authentic slave cabin remains on the land, but this is probably not the case as the cabin does not follow building techniques associated with cabins of the day. The techniques used actually reflect modern techniques and may simply be an early reproduction. Archaeologists have uncovered many slave artifacts. Twenty one of the thirty buildings on campus were designated as the "Sweet Briar College Historic District" by the National Register of Historic Places
.
, Pre-Medicine and Pre-Veterinary and two graduate
degree
s. Both programs are co-ed and in the field of education.
There are 7 standard dormitories, and more independent living available in the Green Village and Patteson House, available to upperclasswomen. The school has over fifty clubs and organizations.
At Sweet Briar, the Honor Code pervades every aspect of everyday life. First-years are required to memorize the pledge and take a test on it before they are allowed to hand in and Pledge any academic work. All academic work must be Pledged, and the consequences for violating that pledge are severe. Because of the high standards held by the honor code at Sweet Briar, students are able to take unproctored, self-scheduled exams. This is one privilege that distinguishes Sweet Briar from other colleges. The Honor Code has non-academic applications as well.
s. Sweet Briar is a member of the Old Dominion Athletic Conference
. Sweet Briar has 7 Varsity Sports: Field Hockey
, Lacrosse
, Soccer, Softball
, Swimming
, Tennis
and Volleyball
. Sweet Briar has Fencing
as a club sport.
Students also participate in recreational sports through the Sweet Briar Outdoor Program (SWEBOP). SWEBOP organizes many trips throughout the year including hiking, fly fishing, caving, rock climbing and weekly kayaking and skiing.
, and show jumping
. The school has 7 riding teams. These include a jumper team, hunter show team, JV hunter show team, Affiliated National Riding Commission (ANRC) team, field team, and Intercollegiate Horse Show Association
(IHSA) team. As part of its program, students can study for an Equine Studies Certificate with a focus in either training or equine management.
Accolades include 10 ANRC Team reserve national championships titles, and 9 ANRC Team national championship titles. Sweet Briar individuals have been reserve ANRC national champions seven times, and national champions nine times. Sweet Briar riders have claimed several individual titles, including Karen Dennehy and Morganne Young.
In 2006, Sweet Briar's IHSA team won their region (Zone 4, Region 1), and placed second at Zones, qualifying them for the Nationals Competition. The team placed third overall, with Jodie Weber '06 claiming a fourth overall in the Cacchione Cup competition. Weber also claimed the Open Over Fences Championship that catapulted the team into the third place position. In 2008, Sweet Briar IHSA won their region again, and proceeded to Nationals, where team members collected individual ribbons.
Equestrian center features include:
Liberal arts colleges in the United States
Liberal arts colleges in the United States are certain undergraduate institutions of higher education in the United States. The Encyclopædia Britannica Concise offers a definition of the liberal arts as a "college or university curriculum aimed at imparting general knowledge and developing general...
women's college
Women's Colleges in the Southern United States
Women's colleges in the Southern United States refers to undergraduate, bachelor's degree-granting institutions, often liberal arts colleges, whose student populations consist exclusively or almost exclusively of women. Salem College is the oldest female educational institution in the South and...
in Sweet Briar
Sweet Briar, Virginia
Sweet Briar is an unincorporated community in Amherst County in the central part of the U.S. state of Virginia. It is approximately 11 miles northeast of Lynchburg. Sweet Briar is best known for being the home of Sweet Briar College, a women's college founded there in 1901...
, Virginia
Virginia
The Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...
, about 12 miles (19 km) north of Lynchburg, Virginia
Lynchburg, Virginia
Lynchburg is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The population was 75,568 as of 2010. Located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains along the banks of the James River, Lynchburg is known as the "City of Seven Hills" or "The Hill City." Lynchburg was the only major city in...
. The school's Latin motto translates as: "She who has earned the rose may bear it."
The college is on 3250 acre donated by the founding family of Indiana Fletcher Williams.
History
The school is named after the former Sweet Briar plantation, the former plantation of Elijah FletcherElijah Fletcher
Elijah Fletcher was a 19th century teacher, businessman, and served as mayor of Lynchburg, Virginia for two terms in the early 1830s. He was the publisher of The Virginian newspaper, and was a founding member of St...
and his family. Fletcher was a 19th century teacher, businessman, and mayor of Lynchburg. His wife, Maria Crawford, is credited with naming the land Sweet Briar. By the mid-19th century, Fletcher had between 80 and 100 slaves at the plantation. After their emancipation
Emancipation
Emancipation means the act of setting an individual or social group free or making equal to citizens in a political society.Emancipation may also refer to:* Emancipation , a champion Australian thoroughbred racehorse foaled in 1979...
in 1865, several continued to work for pay and live at Sweet Briar. On Elijah Fletcher's death, his daughter, Indiana, inherited the plantation. When she passed in 1900, she willed the land and much of her assets to starting a college for women. The reason for it becoming a women's college was because of her daughter, Daisy. Daisy died young because of genetic disease, so she never got to attend college. apparently the disease was genetic and Daisy's father also had the disease.
Architecture
The campus is situated on 3250 acres (13 km²) in the foothills of the Blue Ridge MountainsBlue Ridge Mountains
The Blue Ridge Mountains are a physiographic province of the larger Appalachian Mountains range. This province consists of northern and southern physiographic regions, which divide near the Roanoke River gap. The mountain range is located in the eastern United States, starting at its southern-most...
. The college's architecture is dominated by the work of Ralph Adams Cram
Ralph Adams Cram
Ralph Adams Cram FAIA, , was a prolific and influential American architect of collegiate and ecclesiastical buildings, often in the Gothic style. Cram & Ferguson and Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson are partnerships in which he worked.-Early life:Cram was born on December 16, 1863 at Hampton Falls, New...
, who also lent his architectural expertise to the campuses of Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
and West Point
United States Military Academy
The United States Military Academy at West Point is a four-year coeducational federal service academy located at West Point, New York. The academy sits on scenic high ground overlooking the Hudson River, north of New York City...
, among others. The campus property also includes the Sweet Briar plantation burial ground, in which upwards of sixty slaves are buried; according to some, an authentic slave cabin remains on the land, but this is probably not the case as the cabin does not follow building techniques associated with cabins of the day. The techniques used actually reflect modern techniques and may simply be an early reproduction. Archaeologists have uncovered many slave artifacts. Twenty one of the thirty buildings on campus were designated as the "Sweet Briar College Historic District" by the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...
.
Rankings
Sweet Briar has continually ranked high across the board by several organizations.- Princeton Review's "Best 361 Colleges": in 2010, ranked No. 8 for "Best Career Services," No 11 for "Class Discussions Encouraged," No. 6 for "Most Beautiful Campus," No. 4 for "Professors Get High Marks," No. 3 for "Most Accessible Professors," and No. 8 for "Best Classroom Experience," making Sweet Briar the only college in the nation to appear on all four academic top-20 lists.
- In 2009, ForbesForbesForbes is an American publishing and media company. Its flagship publication, the Forbes magazine, is published biweekly. Its primary competitors in the national business magazine category are Fortune, which is also published biweekly, and Business Week...
rated it 69th of America's Best CollegesForbes Magazine's List of America's Best CollegesIn 2009 Forbes Magazine, along with The Center for College Affordability and Productivity, compiled a list of America's Best Colleges based on "the quality of the education they provide, the experience of the students and how much they achieve".- 2009 List :...
. - In 2009-10, Princeton Review gave SBC an academic ranking of 99, a perfect score.
- In 2004, Princeton Review gave SBC an academic ranking of 99, a perfect score.
- U.S. News & World ReportU.S. News & World ReportU.S. News & World Report is an American news magazine published from Washington, D.C. Along with Time and Newsweek it was for many years a leading news weekly, focusing more than its counterparts on political, economic, health and education stories...
's "America's Best Colleges" ratings, out of 100 top liberal arts colleges: in 2006, 71st; in 2005, 68th; in 2004, 63rd. - Princeton Review's "Best 361 Colleges": in 2008, ranked No. 1 for "Most Beautiful Campus," No. 5 for "Best Career/Job Placement Services," No. 8 for "Professors Make Themselves Available," No. 10 for "Professors Get High Marks" and No. 13 for "Class Discussions Encouraged."
- Princeton Review's "Best 361 Colleges": in 2007, ranked 7th "Professors that Make Themselves Accessible," ranked 10th "Class Discussions Encouraged" and ranked 12th "Dorms Like Palaces." Based on a student-based survey.
- Princeton Review's "Best 361 Colleges": in 2006, ranked 11th "Professors Make Themselves Accessible," ranked 11th "Class Discussions Encouraged," ranked 14th "Dorms Like Palaces."
- Princeton Review's "Best 357 Colleges": in 2005, ranked 14th, higher than any other women's college, "Best Overall Academic Experience" and ranked 9th "Best Bargains" (private schools).
- Princeton Review's "Best 351 Colleges": in 2004, ranked 4th in "Student Happiness with Financial Aid," ranked 11th "Best Quality of Life Category," and ranked 15th "Class Discussions Encouraged."
- Princeton Review's "Best 345 Colleges": in 2003, ranked 8th "Students Happy with Financial Aid," ranked 9th "Professor Make Themsevles Accessible," ranked 10th "Best Quality of Life," and ranked 12th "Are Your Instructors Good Teachers?"
- National Survey of Student EngagementNational Survey of Student EngagementThe National Survey of Student Engagement is a survey instrument used to gauge the level of student participation at universities and colleges in Canada and the United States as it relates to learning. The results of the survey help administrators and instructors to assess their students' student...
(NSSE) results: in 2004, SBC exceeded national average on all five key NSSE measures; in 2001, SBC scored in the top 10% on all NSSE measures; in 2000, SBC scored in the top 20%. - Princeton Review's most beautiful campus: In 2007 rated #1, in 2006, rated #3; in 2005 rated #5. (Student-based survey)
Academics
* The school operates 50 undergraduate courses of study as well as 3 pre-professional programs: Pre-LawPre-law
In the United States, pre-law refers to any course of study taken by an undergraduate in preparation for study at a law school.The American Bar Association requires law schools that it approves to require at least a bachelor's degree for North American students for admission...
, Pre-Medicine and Pre-Veterinary and two graduate
Graduate school
A graduate school is a school that awards advanced academic degrees with the general requirement that students must have earned a previous undergraduate degree...
degree
Academic degree
An academic degree is a position and title within a college or university that is usually awarded in recognition of the recipient having either satisfactorily completed a prescribed course of study or having conducted a scholarly endeavour deemed worthy of his or her admission to the degree...
s. Both programs are co-ed and in the field of education.
- Sweet Briar College is the second women's collegeWomen's collegeWomen's colleges in higher education are undergraduate, bachelor's degree-granting institutions, often liberal arts colleges, whose student populations are composed exclusively or almost exclusively of women...
to offer an engineeringEngineeringEngineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of...
degreeAcademic degreeAn academic degree is a position and title within a college or university that is usually awarded in recognition of the recipient having either satisfactorily completed a prescribed course of study or having conducted a scholarly endeavour deemed worthy of his or her admission to the degree...
. - Sweet Briar College offers several abroad programs to its students, the two largest being Junior Year in FranceFranceThe French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
and Junior Year in SpainSpainSpain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
.
Campus life
Sweet Briar is a residential campus, and nearly all students live on campus during their time at SBC.There are 7 standard dormitories, and more independent living available in the Green Village and Patteson House, available to upperclasswomen. The school has over fifty clubs and organizations.
The Honor Code
Sweet Briar women do not lie, cheat, steal or violate the rights of others. Therefore I pledge to uphold all standards of honorable conduct. I will report myself and others for any infraction of this pledge.
At Sweet Briar, the Honor Code pervades every aspect of everyday life. First-years are required to memorize the pledge and take a test on it before they are allowed to hand in and Pledge any academic work. All academic work must be Pledged, and the consequences for violating that pledge are severe. Because of the high standards held by the honor code at Sweet Briar, students are able to take unproctored, self-scheduled exams. This is one privilege that distinguishes Sweet Briar from other colleges. The Honor Code has non-academic applications as well.
Sports
Its sports teams are known as the VixenVixen
A vixen is a female fox.Vixen may also refer to:-In the military:*HMS Vixen, various British Royal Navy ships*USS Vixen, various ships in the US Navy*Vickers Vixen, a biplane produced in small numbers in the 1920s...
s. Sweet Briar is a member of the Old Dominion Athletic Conference
Old Dominion Athletic Conference
The Old Dominion Athletic Conference is an NCAA Division III athletic conference. Its member schools are located primarily in Virginia, with other members in North Carolina and Washington, DC. Only the American Southwest Conference in Texas is larger in Division III. -History:The conference was...
. Sweet Briar has 7 Varsity Sports: Field Hockey
Field hockey
Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...
, Lacrosse
Lacrosse
Lacrosse is a team sport of Native American origin played using a small rubber ball and a long-handled stick called a crosse or lacrosse stick, mainly played in the United States and Canada. It is a contact sport which requires padding. The head of the lacrosse stick is strung with loose mesh...
, Soccer, Softball
Softball
Softball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of 10 to 14 players. It is a direct descendant of baseball although there are some key differences: softballs are larger than baseballs, and the pitches are thrown underhand rather than overhand...
, Swimming
Swimming (sport)
Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...
, Tennis
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
and Volleyball
Volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...
. Sweet Briar has Fencing
Fencing
Fencing, which is also known as modern fencing to distinguish it from historical fencing, is a family of combat sports using bladed weapons.Fencing is one of four sports which have been featured at every one of the modern Olympic Games...
as a club sport.
Students also participate in recreational sports through the Sweet Briar Outdoor Program (SWEBOP). SWEBOP organizes many trips throughout the year including hiking, fly fishing, caving, rock climbing and weekly kayaking and skiing.
Riding
The school operates a horseback riding program, which focuses on show and field hunters, huntseat equitationEquitation
Equitation is the art or practice of horse riding or horsemanship.More specifically, equitation may refer to a rider's position while mounted, and encompass a rider's ability to ride correctly and with effective aids. In horse show competition, the rider, rather than the horse is evaluated...
, and show jumping
Show jumping
Show jumping, also known as "stadium jumping," "open jumping," or "jumpers," is a member of a family of English riding equestrian events that also includes dressage, eventing, hunters, and equitation. Jumping classes commonly are seen at horse shows throughout the world, including the Olympics...
. The school has 7 riding teams. These include a jumper team, hunter show team, JV hunter show team, Affiliated National Riding Commission (ANRC) team, field team, and Intercollegiate Horse Show Association
Intercollegiate Horse Show Association
-Overview:The Intercollegiate Horse Show Association or IHSA is an equestrian organization established in 1967 by Bob Cacchione when he was a sophomore at Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey...
(IHSA) team. As part of its program, students can study for an Equine Studies Certificate with a focus in either training or equine management.
Accolades include 10 ANRC Team reserve national championships titles, and 9 ANRC Team national championship titles. Sweet Briar individuals have been reserve ANRC national champions seven times, and national champions nine times. Sweet Briar riders have claimed several individual titles, including Karen Dennehy and Morganne Young.
In 2006, Sweet Briar's IHSA team won their region (Zone 4, Region 1), and placed second at Zones, qualifying them for the Nationals Competition. The team placed third overall, with Jodie Weber '06 claiming a fourth overall in the Cacchione Cup competition. Weber also claimed the Open Over Fences Championship that catapulted the team into the third place position. In 2008, Sweet Briar IHSA won their region again, and proceeded to Nationals, where team members collected individual ribbons.
Equestrian center features include:
- 130-acre on-campus riding center
- 10 large fields ranging from 3 to 25 acres
- More than 18 miles of trails through wooded countryside, foothills, dells and open fields
- One of the largest indoor college arenas in the nation, measuring 120 feet x 300 feet
- Three spacious outdoor rings, along with an enclosed lunging ring
- More than seven teaching and schooling fields
- Hunter trials course
- Fence lines with coops
- Complete inventory of hunter-jumper fences suitable for USEF competitions
- Veterinarians on call
- Twice-weekly farrier visits
- Frequent equine chiropractor appointments
- Biannual equine dentist visits
Administration
- Victor HenningsenVictor HenningsenVictor William Henningsen, Jr. was an American businessman, entrepreneur, political activist and philanthropist.-Education and military service:...
, former president of the Board of Trustees - Jo Ellen Johnson Parker, President, Sweet Briar College
Alumnae
- Elaine DundyElaine DundyElaine Dundy was an American novelist, biographer, journalist, actress and playwright.-Early life:Born Elaine Rita Brimberg in New York City, of Latvian maternal descent, her Polish father was an office furniture manufacturer and a violent bully...
, actor, journalist, novelist, biographer, and playwright - Sally Miller GearhartSally Miller GearhartSally Miller Gearhart is an American teacher, feminist, science fiction writer, and political activist. In 1973 she became the first open lesbian to obtain a tenure-track faculty position when she was hired by San Francisco State University, where she helped establish one of the first women and...
, educator and science fictionScience fictionScience fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...
writer - Molly HaskellMolly HaskellMolly Haskell is an American feminist film critic and author. Her most influential book is From Reverence to Rape: the Treatment of Women in the Movies...
, feminist film critic and author - Janet Lee Bouvier, mother of Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
- Diana MuldaurDiana MuldaurDiana Muldaur is an Emmy-nominated American film and television actress.-Career:Born in New York City, but raised on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, Muldaur started acting in high school and continued on through college, graduating from Sweet Briar College in Virginia in 1960. She studied acting...
, actor and former president of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences - Nancy Richards-Akers, romance novelist
- Diane Holloway, television critic, Austin American-StatesmanAustin American-StatesmanThe Austin American-Statesman is the major daily newspaper for Austin, the capital city of Texas. It is an award-winning publication owned by Cox Enterprises. The Newspaper places focus on issues affecting Austin and the Central Texas region....
. - Mary Lee SettleMary Lee SettleMary Lee Settle was an American writer and winner of the National Book Award for her 1978 novel Blood Tie...
, author - Ann TaylorAnn Taylor (NPR newscaster)Ann Taylor is a newscaster for National Public Radio , contributing to All Things Considered since 1989. She graduated from Chatham Hall and attended Sweet Briar College, before transferring to and graduating from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville...
, National Public Radio newscaster (attended but did not graduate from SBC). - Teresa TomlinsonTeresa TomlinsonTeresa Tomlinson is the current mayor of the United States city of Columbus, Georgia. Tomlinson replaced Jim Wetherington as Columbus mayor and is the first female to hold the office....
, current mayor of Columbus, GeorgiaColumbus, GeorgiaColumbus is a city in and the county seat of Muscogee County, Georgia, United States, with which it is consolidated. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 189,885. It is the principal city of the Columbus, Georgia metropolitan area, which, in 2009, had an estimated population of 292,795... - Sarah Porter Boehlmer, first female Executive VP of the New York Stock ExchangeNew York Stock ExchangeThe New York Stock Exchange is a stock exchange located at 11 Wall Street in Lower Manhattan, New York City, USA. It is by far the world's largest stock exchange by market capitalization of its listed companies at 13.39 trillion as of Dec 2010...
- Joanne Holbrook Patton, wife of General George Smith Patton, daughter of Brigadier General Willard Ames "Hunk" Holbrook Jr., benefactress of the "Joanne Holbrook Patton Military Spouse Scholarship Program"
- Joan Vail Thorne, playwright
- Jennifer Ashley Harper, Dave Matthews wife
Current faculty
- Lincoln P. Brower, Research Professor of Biology, leading authority on the Monarch Butterfly
- Carrie Brown, English Professor, novelist
- John Gregory BrownJohn Gregory Brown-Background and education:Brown was born on July 31, 1960 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He received his B.A. from Tulane University in 1982, and his M.A. from Johns Hopkins University in 1988...
, English Professor, novelist
Previous faculty
- Belle Boone Beard, sociology professor and an authority on centenarians
- Marion Elizabeth BlakeMarion Elizabeth BlakeMarion Elizabeth Blake was a classical languages professor who is known for her work in researching the technology of Roman construction. Dr. Blake died in Rome, Italy, in 1961.-Blake's Background:...
, classics professor - Cornelius EadyCornelius EadyCornelius Eady is an American poet focusing largely on matters of race and society, particularly the trials of the African-American race in the United States. His poetry often centers around jazz and blues, family life, violence, and societal problems stemming from questions of race and class...
, poet - Iren MarikIren MarikIren Marik was a classical pianist born in Hungary in 1905. Although she studied with composer Béla Bartók and studied at Budapest's Liszt Academy, she fled Hungary after World War II and moved to the United States, where she taught at Sweet Briar College and eventually moved to the small town of...
, classical pianistPianistA pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers.-Choice of genres:... - Constance MerrittConstance MerrittConstance Merritt is an American poet. Born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas in 1966, and educated at the Arkansas School for the Blind in Little Rock. She is also the winner of the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry and a finalist for the William Carlos Williams Book Award...
, former Margaret Banister Writer-in-Residence - Mary OliverMary OliverMary Oliver is an American poet who has won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. The New York Times described her as "far and away, this country's [America's] best-selling poet".-Early life:...
, Pulitzer Prize winning poet - Barbara A. PerryBarbara A. PerryDr. Barbara A. Perry, a U.S. Supreme Court and presidency expert, as well as a biographer of the Kennedys, is a Senior Fellow at the University of Virginia's Miller Center and is the former Carter Glass Professor of Government and founding director of the Center for Civic Renewal at Sweet Briar...
, Carter Glass Professor of Government, Author, National Media Commentator
List of presidents
- Jo Ellen Parker (2009–Present)
- Elisabeth Showalter Muhlenfeld, President emerita (1996–2009)
- Barbara A. Hill (1990–1996)
- Nenah Elinor Fry (1983–1990)
- Harold B. Whiteman, Jr. (1971–1983)
- Anne Gary Pannell (1950–1971)
- Martha B. Lucas (1946–1950)
- Meta Glass (1925–1946)
- Emilie Watts McVea (1916–1925)
- Mary K. Benedict (1906–1916)
- Meta Glass (1901-1906)
External links
- Sweet Briar College
- Sweet Briar College Junior Year in France
- Sweet Briar College Junior Year in Spain
- Virginia African American Heritage Program (Sweet Briar is listed as a Heritage Site)
- "In Virginia, three elite women's colleges reinvent themselves and find a new mission in a coed world" (Sweet Briar College, Hollins UniversityHollins UniversityHollins University is a four-year institution of higher education, a private university located on a campus on the border of Roanoke County, Virginia and Botetourt County, Virginia...
, and Mary Baldwin CollegeMary Baldwin CollegeMary Baldwin College is a private, independent, and comprehensive four-year liberal arts women's college in Staunton, Virginia. It was ranked in 2008 by US News & World Report as a top-tier, master's level university in the South. Mary Baldwin offers pre-professional programs in law, medicine,...
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