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LEXINGTON, Va. Sept. 18, 2023 — VMI retained its high placing among the nation’s best colleges, according to the 2024 Best Colleges Rankings released Sept. 18 by U.S. News and World Report. Among public liberal arts colleges, the Institute ranked fourth only behind the United States Naval Academy, the United States Air Force Academy, and ...
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Keniya Lee, who graduated from VMI in 2019, is among the students and alumni of color who describe receiving or witnessing a litany of taunts, slurs and lynching threats during their time at the institute. In a recent interview with the SPLC, Lee described a faculty member reminiscing in class about the fun KKK “parties” she attended as a child wit...
On the VMI campus today, Confederate symbols large and small loom. Among them: buildings and rooms named for Confederate military leaders; tributes to Francis Smith, VMI’s first superintendent and a Confederate colonel; Stonewall Jackson’s stuffed horse inside the VMI Museum; and Memorial Hall’s chapel centerpiece muraltribute to the New Market cad...
The movement for change found initial success. The school removed or renamed three of its 34 Confederate memorials, namely the signature monument to Stonewall Jackson, who had taught at VMI before he took up arms against the United States. Three additional memorials were removed sometime before and after 2020, according to the SPLC’s Whose Heritage...
Keniya Lee can still recall in minute detail that day in 2019 when, as the sole Black person and woman in class, she couldn’t leave without possibly jeopardizing graduation: how she struggled to hold back tears so no one would call her weak or emotional or “acting like a Black woman”; where she sat in relation to the other students (alone in the fr...
4 ott 2022 · Governance. October 03, 2022. VMI to Honor Controversial Former Leader. General J. H. Binford Peay III resigned in 2020 amid allegations that he allowed a culture of systemic racism and sexism to flourish at Virginia Military Institute. Now the institute is awarding him its highest honor. By Josh Moody.
2 giu 2023 · The chief diversity officer of the nation’s oldest state-supported military college, Virginia Military Institute, has turned in her resignation amidst a debate among alumni over efforts to create a more inclusive environment. Jamica Love’s resignation was announced Thursday, June 1, 2023. (Heather Rosseau/The Roanoke Times via AP, File) Read More.
The Virginia Military Institute ( VMI) is a public senior military college in Lexington, Virginia. It was founded in 1839 as America's first state military college and is the oldest public senior military college in the United States.
