State Board tells Patrick Henry, Dabney S. Lancaster Community Colleges to reconsider keeping their names
Henry was Virginia’s first governor and Lancaster, a long-time educator across the Commonwealth
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Two area community college may be getting new names, if a Virginia state board has its way.
On Thursday, the 15-person State Board for Community Colleges announced it unanimously voted to direct Patrick Henry Community College and Dabney S. Lancaster Community College to reconsider their previous decisions to retain their names.
PHCC is located in Henry County, not far from Martinsville, while DSLCC is in Alleghany County, just outside the town limits of Clifton Forge.
By AMY FRIEDENBERGER
The Roanoke Times
The vice chair of the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia has resigned in protest over the handling of the independent investigation into allegations of racism and sexism at Virginia Military Institute.
Tom Slater, a 1966 VMI graduate and attorney at the prominent Richmond law firm Hunton Andrews Kurth, told SCHEV members at their meeting Tuesday that he was âdisappointedâ that Maj. Gen. Cedric T. Wins, superintendent of VMI, is not being offered the opportunity to meet with SCHEV and the law firm investigating the college to discuss the findings and recommendations prior to the report being made public.
LEXINGTON, Va. The vice chair of Virginia’s coordinating agency for higher education is resigning over the handling of the investigation into Virginia Military Institute. The Roanoke Times reports that Tom Slater, vice chair of the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, resigned Tuesday.
Slater, a VMI graduate and attorney, told council members that he was “disappointed” that VMI’s superintendent won’t have a chance to meet with the law firm investigating the college and the state council to discuss the findings and recommendations before the report becomes public. The investigation sparked by allegations of racism at the state-funded military college began four months ago.