VMI superintendent Cedric T. Wins blamed partisanship for a recent decision by the school’s governing board not to renew his ...
Wins, a Black man leading a school whose cadets fought and died for the Confederacy, won some uphill battles, including removing a prominent statue of Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson. But VMI’s powerful ...
The first Black superintendent of the Virginia Military Institute says his forced departure by the board stems from bias, ideology and politics in the wake of diversity efforts rather than his job ...
A group spearheaded by VMI alums is leading an effort to get a “full and immediate explanation” from the school’s Board of Visitors as to why it voted against extending the contract of ...
But resistance to such efforts at VMI, a 189-year-old school that educated Gens. George Patton and George Marshall, has been notably present among some alumni for several years. Wins officially ...