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4. Some of the same type good ole boys ran into that with VMI

Reply to onecaliberal (Reply #3)

Mon Nov 1, 2021, 06:46 PM

Nov 2021

Va. Military Institute was all male and the alums were dead set on keeping it that way. Well it is a public school so yeah they needed to let women in. After the first young woman bailed VMI was sure of itself. Let’s take it private! they said. Then the Commonwealth said - heres the states share of your annual budget aaaaand they decided to let women in.

I looked it up. Basically they’d have to double their fundraising
$95M total budget - $19M from state general fund.

https://www.vmi.edu/media/content-assets/documents/finance-administration-and-support/2019-2020-Operating-Budget.pdf

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