Established in historic Lexington, Va., Washington and Lee University is a private liberal arts institution. Founded in 1749, the university’s roots run deep, and it is the ninth-oldest college ...

Washington and Lee University will keep its name, university officials announced Friday, despite calls to drop the private school’s symbolic ties to the Confederacy. The school’s name, and its ...

LEXINGTON, Va – More and more alumni of Washington and Lee University are calling for a new name for the commonwealth’s second-oldest college. In its nearly 300 year existence, Washington and ...

Washington and Lee University, the private liberal arts school in Virginia, will not change its name after a monthslong review over whether to remove its reference to the Confederate general ...

LEXINGTON, Va. – Washington and Lee University will indeed remain Washington and Lee University. On Friday, the university’s Board of Trustees voted 22-6 in favor of maintaining the name.

Washington and Lee University announced Friday that it won’t remove the name of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from the school, but it will change names on campus buildings and symbols while ...

A Virginia college taps the brakes on change. ... Despite pressures from within and without, the Washington and Lee University Board of Trustees has voted 22-6 to keep its 151-year-old name.

LEXINGTON, Va. (WSET) — Washington and Lee University received a grant to become a partner institution for "On These Grounds", a project to design and test a data model to describe events in the ...

LEXINGTON, Va. (WSET) — Washington and Lee University announced Friday that it will continue under its current name following a 22-6 decision by its Board of Trustees. The decisions follow an 11 ...

Washington and Lee University announced Friday that it won't remove the name of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from the school, but it will change names on campus buildings and symbols while ...

Washington and Lee University announced that it will no longer consider students’ or families’ ability to pay when evaluating applications. ... Virginia’s second recovery high school.

President Trump was railing against the removal of Confederate monuments, including one of Gen. Robert E. Lee at the center of the protest last weekend in Charlottesville, Va., that led to deadly ...