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...Rhodes scholar, fought with the Mobile Riverine Force of the 9th Infantry Division in Viet Nam, and as a major taught at West Point. He left the Army with feelings of sympathetic frustration over watching good men fight a useless war in the wrong way. He became president of Briarcliff College, wrote another novel (The Advent of Frederick Giles), and moved to Hampden-Sydney in 1977. His time is spent now with his students, and with Brahms, Carlyle, and a strong spirit still to be savored among those Virginia hills, Stonewall Jackson...
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...schools that lack large endowments and openhanded alums, the main alternative is aggressive sale of their wares to new groups of students. New York's 21,500-student Pace University, which has flourished to the point of gobbling up the campus of defunct Briarcliff in Westchester County, specializes in courses and classroom hours tailored to the need of working adults. With a similar adult-education program, the National University of San Diego, where the average age of students is 30, has grown in seven years to a 15-acre downtown campus and an enrollment...
Last April Briarcliff College-a small, private and long financially troubled women's college near White Plains, N.Y. -sold its 55-acre campus out from under some 300 students. But rather than die outright or be absorbed by burgeoning Pace University, which had bought the facility for its nearby Westchester campus, homeless Briarcliff proposed a desperate sort of scholastic piggyback. It hoped to share its remaining faculty and students with yet another small, private and financially strapped women's college: Bennett, a two-year junior college with 230 students. Under the tentative plan, Briarcliff would attract many...
...scheme collapsed. Two weeks ago, after Briarcliff s efforts to lure enough students to the new site proved futile, the New York Board of Regents dissolved the 75-year-old school's charter. Bennett, which filed bankruptcy proceedings last spring, will almost surely close down this week too. Meanwhile, a standing deficit has forced a third private women's college in New York State, twelve-year-old Kirkland, to merge next year with coordinate Hamilton College, a 165-year-old, previously all-male college in Clinton...