After several days of meetings that began Friday, the Virginia Military Institute Board of Visitors selected new leadership. It also voted in an acting superintendent to replace Major General Cedric Wins whose contract was not renewed earlier this year after criticism of DEI initiatives he supported.

Dave Cantor has more.

As college students prepare to leave for school, mental health professionals are gearing up to support those who find it hard to adjust to life away from home.  

The challenge may be especially great at schools like the Virginia Military Institute where campus culture supports strength and self-discipline. This year, VMI will have a new approach to helping cadets, as Sandy Hausman reports.

While African Americans fought in every American war from the revolution on, aspiring Black soldiers could not study at the Virginia Military Institute until 1968.  Still one student – this year’s valedictorian — says they made an important contribution to the school.  Sandy Hausman talked with him and filed this report.