LEXINGTON, Va. (WRIC) — Students at Washington and Lee walked out of their classes and dorms at 12:15 p.m. on Tuesday to call for the university to change its name. Ahead of the walkout today, a ...

Washington and Lee University is a private institution that was founded in 1749. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 1,898 (fall 2023), its setting is city, and the campus size is 430 acres.

Washington and Lee University will keep its name, university officials announced Friday, despite calls to drop the private school’s symbolic ties to the Confederacy. The school’s name, and its ...