AMHERST COUNTY (WSLS 10) - Sweet Briar College is saved for at least one school year.
Judge James Updike approved an agreement settlement Monday morning. There was cheering and singing in the courtroom.
Some students are figuring out what's next after making plans to attend other colleges in the fall.
"I've been talking to a lot of people," says Hallsey Brandt, rising senior. "We're waiting to hear back about logistics, financial aid, scholarships, rooming, classes so once that's released well know more but I know a lot of people want to come back."
Some teachers like Marcia Thom-Kaley are excited for the upcoming school year but know many won't be joining them.
"I would guesstimate 60 to 70 percent of the faculty would be able to stay," says Marcia Thom-Kaley. It's part of our healing and our grief those are members of our family and I can't even talk about it because it's been really hard. Losing people is very difficult."
Details about the upcoming year at the college are still being worked out. There will be a new board of directors at the college and Phillip Stone, who retired from Bridgewater College, will take over as president.
"I'm old enough and wise enough not to be naive and I still say the best years are ahead and we're gonna turn it around quickly and be very successful," Stone said.
Attorney General Mark Herring said the agreement settlement took hundreds of hours and everyone had the mindset of trying to find the best solution for this college and the people affected. Meanwhile, alumnae organization Saving Sweet Briar is busy reaching out to students and teachers about the decision and the upcoming year it made possible.