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Education agency vice chair resigns over VMI probe May 19, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail LEXINGTON, Va. (AP) — 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 Superintendent Maj. Gen. Cedric T. Wins won’t have a chance to meet with the law firm inv...

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 “disappointed” 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 colleg...

The school continues to make decisions as an investigation continues.