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Virginia Military Institute

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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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Bast holds a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the Virginia Military Institute and a master's degree from the University of California, Berkeley.
Virginia Military Institute has failed to persuade the Supreme Court to restore officially sponsored mealtime prayer at the school.
He is a graduate of a distinguished military institution, the Virginia Military Institute.
 
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