HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Sweet Briar College, Citing ‘Financial Challenges,’ Will Close Its Doors in August. “The Richmond Times-Dispatch notes that the college is the state’s third liberal-arts institution in two years to close, joining Saint Paul’s College and Virginia Intermont College. Founded in 1901, Sweet Briar has 328 employees, including 72 full-time faculty members. It enrolled 700 students this year.”

Who could have seen this coming?