Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“VMI, like all other colleges and universities, should have the right to run its affairs any way it wants. If a college wants to adopt DEI, it should be free to do so. If it wants to reject DEI, that’s fine too. If it wants to have a black-studies program, great. If it doesn’t, that’s great too. If it wants to honor Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, John Archibald Campbell, and other people who fought for their country and for the right of secession, so be it. If it wants to instead honor Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, William T. Sherman, Philip Sheridan, and other war criminals, so be it as well. The problem, of course, is that VMI is on the state dole. He who pays the piper calls the tune.” (02/13/26)
https://www.fff.org/2026/02/13/separate-vmi-and-higher-education-from-the-state/