Ten Virginia Military Institute cadets and three history professors embarked on a three-day visit to Washington, D.C., and ...

Five Black cadets and one former cadet said retired Army Maj. Gen. Cedric Wins has eased racial tensions since taking over, ...

According to Wins, his focus was on prioritizing cadets’ “safety, education and well-being” so they understood that VMI had their backs “regardless of what they look like, where they come ...

And it changed a student-run honor court that disproportionately expelled Black cadets, according to The Washington Post. VMI did not accept African Americans until 1968 or accept women until ...

In a fiery statement the school released on Thursday afternoon, Wins, a 1985 VMI graduate, accused the board of subjecting cadets to politics and called it “misfeasance that endangers VMI and ...

The Spirit of VMI did not respond to multiple requests for comment. Among Wins’s supporters, the board’s decision drew swift pushback. A half-dozen Black cadets, who detailed new allegations ...

And a racial disparity existed among cadets who’d been dismissed by the student-run honor court. Sexual assault was also prevalent yet inadequately addressed. “Although VMI has no explicitly ...

Supporters of Wins, including some Black cadets, say he has ... Stonewall Jackson — a former VMI professor and enslaver — that stood outside the student barracks. In April 2021, Wins was ...