further action, including revocation of accreditation and loss of federal financial aid, could have followed. In June 2019, the commission lifted the warning status.
==== Admissions policy barring transgender students ====
In August 2024, Sweet Briar's leaders announced that the college would not accept transgender students. The Common Application, which Sweet Briar requires applicants to complete, had recently changed to list four possible genders, something the college's administrators found unacceptable saying that the change "presents a challenge both for students applying for admission and administrators and staff making admissions decisions".
College policy now says students can be admitted "if she confirms that her sex assigned at birth is female and that she consistently lives and identifies as a woman". Before this it just required a birth certificate. Sweet Briar's student government association and other campus groups have used social media to criticize the change. On August 26, 2024, the college's …
