Personnel Update from the Superintendent
To the VMI Community:
This past weekend, I informed the Board of Visitors of changes among my senior leadership team. Jim Miller, VMI鈥檚 athletic director, and Col. Adrian Bogart, the Institute鈥檚 commandant, will both step down effective June 30, 2024.
Shortly after my arrival as superintendent, I asked Jim Miller to step in to fill a vacancy in the athletic director role. Jim was a basketball coach at VMI who went on to have a long career as an athletic administrator, director, and consultant over the previous 40 years. I asked him to give me a few years to provide direction to VMI鈥檚 athletics program, help me understand the ever-changing NCAA landscape, and to lay the groundwork for a future of excellence for VMI athletics. During his time at the Institute, Jim has led a small but dedicated team of professionals. He鈥檚 been an effective advocate for improving the cadet-athlete experience and committed to a 鈥淐ompete to Win鈥� outcome. He has used his experience and network to bring several quality coaching hires to VMI including coaches Danny Rocco and Andrew Wilson.
VMI will engage a third-party vendor to assist VMI鈥檚 search committee in identifying our next athletic director. This process is already underway, and I hope to have new athletic director on post this summer.
Col. Bogart originally committed to serving three years as commandant which ends this June. He brought a great deal of experience to the role of commandant. His focus on professionalism and leader development brought many positive changes to the VMI experience that better prepares our cadets to lead after graduation. Bogart and his team were instrumental in providing leadership during the Institute鈥檚 response to Covid-19, an unprecedented time in VMI鈥檚 history. Col. Bogart has been highly invested in the success of, not just the Corps of Cadets, but many individual cadets during his three years as commandant.
We will soon start accepting applications for our next commandant that will be evaluated by a search committee representing the many departments on post. My intention is to have a new commandant in place prior to matriculation in August.
I am grateful for their service to VMI and wish them the best of luck in their future endeavors.
