June 20 that the college is to remain open. Sweet Briar successfully re-opened for the 2015-16 school year and remains open. Additional former and defunct women's schools 1814: Louisburg Female Academy (now Louisburg College): Founded in North Carolina; Louisburg Female College, founded in 1857. Later merged with Franklin Male Academy. 1818: Elizabeth Female Academy: First female educational institution in Mississippi; it closed in 1843. 1819: Nazareth Academy (later Nazareth College, now Spalding University): Founded as an academy (high school) in Bardstown, Kentucky, it moved to the nearby community of Nazareth in 1822, and first received authority to grant degrees in 1829. The Sisters of Charity of Nazareth, which has operated the institution from its creation, opened a branch campus in Louisville in 1920. The school became Spalding College in 1969, moved all instruction to Louisville in 1971, admitted its first men in 1973, and became a university in 1984. 1821: Clinton Female Seminary: Georgia. Forerunner to Wesleyan College. 1827: Knoxville Female Academy: Rechartered as the East Tennessee Female Institute in 1846, which granted "Mistress of Polite Literature" degrees; closed in 1911. 1828: South Carolina Female Institute: The word "Collegiate" was added to its charter in 1835. It closed in 1867. 1831: LaGrange Female Academy (now LaGrange College): Founded in LaGrange, Georgia, it became LaGrange Female College in 1851, and coeducational in 1953. 1835: Livingston Female Academy and State Normal College (now University of West Alabama): It became coeducational in 1915. 1838: Judson Female Institute (Judson College): Founded in Marion, Alabama, it became Judson College in 1903, it closed in 2021. 1839: Farmville Female Seminary Association (now Longwood University): Founded in Farmville, Virginia, it became a four-year college in 1860; it became coeducational in 1976. 1841: Asheville Female Seminary: Later renamed Asheville Female College. 1842: Fulton Female Academy (now Synodical College): Founded in Fulton, Missouri, it closed in 1928. 1842: Augusta Female Seminary (now Mary Baldwin University): Founded in Staunton, Virginia, it was renamed as Mary Baldwin Seminary in 1895, Mary Baldwin College in 1923 after curriculum development, and Mary Baldwin University in 2016. It went coeducational one year later. 1846: Greensboro Female College: Charted in 1838 in Greensboro, North Carolina; it is now the coeducational school Greensboro College. 1847: Kentucky Female Orphan School (now Midway University): Became fully coeducational in 2016 when it admitted men into its daytime undergraduate program, the last component of the school that remained women-only. The