‘Let’s Make This Work’: Sweet Briar’s New President Surveys the Task Ahead

That a group of alumnae managed to save Sweet Briar College from imminent closure surprised Phillip C. Stone as much as anyone.  Mr. Stone is now poised to take office. The Chronicle spoke to the new Sweet Briar president about how he plans to pull the troubled women’s college back from the brink of collapse and set it up to survive at a time when many small, rural colleges face difficult choices.