the school's first female cadets are now seniors -- and some are in charge. For some VMI alumni, the end of single sex education was a heartbreaking change. For the school superintendent ...

Hundreds gathered in Lexington this week to relive the old days. Virginia Military Institute held a big reunion for five ...

For 29 years beginning in 1919, Virginia Military Institute was host to a formal cavalry that at one point exceeded 200 ...

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 ...

VMI, which received $32 million in state general funds in 2025, did not admit Black men until 1968, and women until 1997. Of its more than 1,500 cadets, most are White and male. Black students ...

"Hell week" marks the beginning of the rats' journey to becoming full-fledged cadets at VMI, the oldest public senior military college in the US, which has been at the center of controversy for ...