Sweet Briar College will temporarily suspend retirement benefits and lay off some workers to make up for a $950,000 revenue shortfall caused by lower-than-expected fall enrollment numbers.

Sweet Briar College’s tenth president, Jo Ellen Parker, was sworn in Saturday during an inauguration ceremony attended by about 800 students, faculty and guests in the college’s newly renovated Fitness and Athletics Center Field House.

Five Central Virginia colleges are sponsoring a free how-to workshop on the college application process Saturday at the Florence Elston Inn & Conference Center on Sweet Briar College’s campus.

Sweet Briar College will swear in Jo Ellen Parker as its 10th president during an inauguration ceremony on Saturday.

Students who come down with swine flu at Liberty University have the option of recuperating in a room at the cushiest student dormitory on campus: the Lynchburg Inn, a former hotel turned dormitory to alleviate the school’s housing crunch.

The annual listing of “America’s Best Colleges” has given new bragging rights to Virginia schools.

Students at Sweet Briar College would recognize the name Prothro.

A cigarette caused a fire early today that damaged a Sweet Briar College student residence.

Sweet Briar College hopes to use a $563,500 grant to increase the number of women who study engineering.

While Liberty University’s commencement on May 9 is the earliest of major colleges in the area this year, the school is the last to announce a speaker.

The former director of Randolph College’s Maier Museum of Art has been granted a fellowship with the Smithsonian Institution to conduct research for a book on the practice of selling items from museum collections for profit.

The history surrounding the landscape of Sweet Briar College was like a calling to Wayne Stark when he took a job as the school’s director of career services nearly eight years ago.

Sweet Briar College recently received bequests totaling more than $4.4 million from the estates of two alumnae, the school announced Thursday.