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By IAN SHAPIRA | The Washington Post | Published: April 15, 2021 LEXINGTON, Va. The Virginia Military Institute, under fire for its treatment of minorities, has selected its first Black superintendent in the school s 182-year-old history. Cedric T. Wins, a retired Army Major General and 1985 VMI graduate, was appointed Thursday to the top job in a unanimous vote by the college s Board of Visitors, the body that oversees the Lexington school. Wins, 57, who grew up in Hyattsville, Md., and was the first in his family to attend college, has been leading the nation s oldest state-supported military college since Nov. 13, when he was appointed as interim superintendent. He replaced retired Army Gen. J.H. Binford Peay III, 80, who resigned Oct. 26, seven days after Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, D, ordered an investigation into the school, and nine days after The Washington Post chronicled rampant racism on the campus.
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A Board of Visitors committee plans to consider new names to replace Jackson Memorial Hall on the grounds of Virginia Military Institute in Lexington. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
LEXINGTON, VA A committee at Virginia Military Institute recommended that the name of Confederate General Thomas Stonewall Jackson be removed from Jackson Memorial Hall on the grounds of the Lexington school. The committee also concluded that the level of veneration of Jackson has been overstated by VMI.
VMI s Board of Visitors Commemorations and Memorials Naming and Review Committee met Friday to discuss a number of issues that support the concept of ensuring the grounds of VMI present an inspiring and inclusive landscape and its memorials properly reflect VMI s core values, VMI Interim Superintendent Maj. Gen. Cedric T. Wins wrote in an email Friday to the VMI community.
By IAN SHAPIRA | The Washington Post | Published: January 23, 2021 The commandant of the Virginia Military Institute, William Bill Wanovich, who came under scrutiny for posing in a photo mocking Hispanics at a campus Halloween party three years ago, is retiring at the end of the academic year, the college announced Friday. Wanovich s pending departure marks the latest major disruption at VMI since The Washington Post published a series of stories exposing racism at the nation s oldest state-supported military college. The revelations prompted Virginia Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam, a VMI graduate, to order an independent investigation into what he called the school s clear and appalling culture of ongoing structural racism. The investigation will be completed later this year.