Tag: Alumni rebellions
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Dissident Alumni Open a New Front in the Higher-Ed Culture Wars
by James A. Bacon A Saturday meeting of the VMI Alumni Association, convened to elect a new board of directors, broke up in acrimony and confusion. In a series of votes, dissident alumni voted to remove the existing board and replace it with a hybrid slate comprised of some old board members and some new.…
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W&L Alumni Rebels Deploy Nuclear Option
by James A. Bacon The Generals Redoubt, an association of alumni protesting the leftist drift of Washington & Lee University, scored a seeming victory earlier this year when the W&L Board voted to keep Lee — as in Confederate general and former university president Robert E. Lee — in the school’s name. But subsequent events…