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Virginia Military Institute

The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2011 | Copyright

Virginia Military Institute (VMI), at Lexington; state supported; chartered and opened 1839 as the first state military college in the United States. Although one of the leading U.S. military institutions, it grants degrees in engineering, science, and the liberal arts. During the Civil War, the institute's corps of cadets served as a unit in the Confederate army under Gen. T. J. (Stonewall) Jackson. VMI excluded women from the corps of cadets into the 1990s. In 1995, a state-sponsored Virginia Women's Institute for Leadership was opened at Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Va., as a parallel program for women after their exclusion from VMI was challenged in the courts. The U.S. Supreme Court, however, ruled (1996) that VMI, as a state-supported school, had to admit women. VMI did so in 1997, and two years later its first female cadets graduated.

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VMI abbr.Virginia Military Institute.

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	The 'new' VMI remains a work in progress. (Virginia Military Institute... Magazine article from: Insight on the News; 9/22/1997
	VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE THE BATTLE IS OVER.(COMMENTARY)(Editorial) Newspaper article from: The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA); 6/30/1996
	Are all 'rats' equal? The Supreme Court looks at VMI. (exclusion of women... Magazine article from: Commonweal; 4/19/1996