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![Interim Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Jim Miller](/media/content-assets/images/news/2021-22/Interim-Director-of-Intercollegiate-Athletics.jpg)
“I’m excited to welcome Jim Miller back to VMI,” said Maj. Gen. Wins, VMI’s 15th superintendent. “I know firsthand that he can compete and win at the highest levels. That’s exactly the type of leadership that we want leading our coaches and cadet-athletes.”
![Maj. Gen. Cedric T. Wins ’85 received a large iron key to the main door of the 1816 state arsenal that preceded VMI. He is the fourth superintendent to have received the key.](/media/content-assets/images/news/2021-22/Wins-ArsenalKey-1-400x266.jpg)
Maj. Gen. Cedric T. Wins ’85 received a large iron key to the main door of the 1816 state arsenal that preceded VMI. He is the fourth superintendent to have received the key.
![Chief of Staff Announcement, portrait of Dr. J.M. “John” Young](/media/content-assets/images/news/2021-22/ChiefofStaff_Sept2021.jpg)
Maj. Gen. Cedric T. Wins ’85 has named Dr. J.M. “John” Young to be Virginia Military Institute’s next chief of staff. VMI’s chief of staff is responsible for coordination, control, and integration of Institute priorities and issues.
![Cadets participating in the 9/11 memorial stair climb, an annual commemoration sponsored by the VMI Firefighting Club that involves climbing 110 flights of stairs, the heights of the two World Trade Center towers that were hit.](/media/content-assets/images/news/2021-22/Sept10-11_News-1-400x266.jpg)
On the weekend marking the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the Institute paid tribute to those individuals who lost their lives with a variety of observances involving many members of the VMI community.
![Sgt. Maj. William T. “Tom” Sowers passed the VMI regimental flag to Watjen, who then passed it to Wins.](/media/content-assets/images/news/2021-22/Wins-Flag-1-400x266.jpg)
Maj. Gen. Cedric T. Wins ’85 was inaugurated as Virginia Military Institute’s 15th superintendent Friday, Sept. 10, and honored with a parade by the Corps of Cadets and a reception in Marshall Hall.
![Drone photo of Post](/media/content-assets/images/news/2021-22/RankingsWebcopy-400x266.jpg)
VMI has retained its high placing among the nation’s best colleges, according to 2022 college rankings released this fall by nationwide publications.
![Maj. Gen. Wins '85 at the podium addressing cadets, faculty, and staff at the Fall 2021 VMI Convocation. —VMI Photo by Kelly Nye](/media/content-assets/images/news/2021-22/AcademicConvocation2022KN26-1-400x266.jpg)
Maj. Gen. Cedric T. Wins ’85, soon to be inaugurated as Virginia Military Institute’s 15th superintendent, addressed cadets, faculty, and staff gathered in Cameron Hall earlier today for the Institute’s academic convocation, the ceremonial beginning of its 182nd year.
![Cole Bordonie ’20 thanks the Baur family for their many contributions to his career path.—VMI Photo by Kelly Nye.](/media/content-assets/images/news/2021-22/BaurLab-Dedication-2021News_Headlines.jpg)
Family legacies at VMI are not uncommon, but most of them involve graduating from the Institute, passing down the family uniform, or even living in the same barracks room. The Baurs have a more direct legacy- A member of the family has taught a course on exercise physiology since 1989.
![Lt. Col. Pennie Ticen to speak on With Good Reason](/media/content-assets/images/news/2021-22/WGR-Ticen.jpg)
Lt. Col. Pennie Ticen, associate professor of English at Virginia Military Institute, will discuss the sometimes controversial British-American author Salman Rushdie on public radio’s With Good Reason Sept. 4-10, in an episode titled “Reading and Writing Ourselves.”
![VMI Logo and Post](/media/content-assets/images/news/2020-2021/VMI_News_Headlines_Custom-1-400x266.jpg)
Governor Northam’s Executive Directive 18 goes into effect on September 1, 2021. A statement was sent to all VMI faculty and staff by Major General Cedric T. Wins '85, superintendent, explaining vaccination reporting and testing guidelines.