{"id":142401,"date":"2023-06-05T11:12:25","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T15:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=142401"},"modified":"2023-06-05T11:12:48","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T15:12:48","slug":"virginia-military-institute-dei-head-quits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=142401","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Military Institute DEI Head Quits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-142402 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/vmi.jpg?resize=300%2C199&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/vmi.jpg?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/vmi.jpg?w=354&amp;ssl=1 354w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Diverse, Equitable and Inclusive VMI Cadets<\/em><\/p>\n<p>VMI&#8217;s lurch to woke has been reported here in the past. All has not gone well there since then.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=106662\">VMI Superintendent resigns after losing the confidence of Gov. Ralph \u201cCoonman\u201d Northam over allegations of racism<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=137431\">VMI Alum Defy Woke Policy<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Military college\u2019s chief of diversity quits amid debate over DEI<\/h3>\n<p><strong>By Ben Finley<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The chief diversity officer of the nation\u2019s oldest state-supported military college, Virginia Military Institute, has turned in her resignation amid a debate among alumni over the school\u2019s diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Jamica Love took on the new role in July 2021 \u2014 a month after a state-sanctioned report found VMI failed to address institutional racism and sexism and must be held accountable for making changes.<\/p>\n<p>Love\u2019s resignation was announced Thursday by VMI\u2019s first Black superintendent, retired U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Cedric T. Wins, and was first reported by The Washington Post.<\/p>\n<p>Love, who is the only Black woman to report to VMI\u2019s superintendent, declined to comment in an email to The Associated Press Friday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2023\/06\/04\/military-colleges-chief-of-diversity-quits-amid-debate-over-dei\/\">Military Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t suppose the precipitous 25% decline in student admissions since going woke had anything to do with the shake-up.<\/p>\n<p>Then there&#8217;s this:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pentagon disbands DEI unit after chief accused of &#8216;racism&#8217; against Whites, injects agenda deeper into agency<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>DEI specialists will further entrenched to push their agenda in every aspect of the Pentagon&#8217;s schools, servicing thousands of children<\/em><br \/>\nBy Hannah Grossman | Fox News<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/pentagon-disbands-dei-unit-chief-accused-racism-against-whites-injects-agenda-deeper-agency\">Fox News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once is an anomaly. Twice is a trend, and Navy just pulled Gay Pride bunting from social media for a three-pete. Is this the beginning of a sea change?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diverse, Equitable and Inclusive VMI Cadets VMI&#8217;s lurch to woke has been reported here in the past. All has not gone well there since then. VMI Superintendent resigns after losing the confidence of Gov. Ralph \u201cCoonman\u201d Northam over allegations of racism VMI Alum Defy Woke Policy Military college\u2019s chief of diversity quits amid debate over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":142402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[328,598,650,145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diversity","category-get-woke","category-points-and-laughs","category-schools"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/vmi.jpg?fit=354%2C235&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-B2N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/142402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}