To Trump, the Federal Executive Institute was 'serving the Federal bureaucracy.' Here's what it was to someone who helped run it

To Trump, the Federal Executive Institute was 'serving the Federal bureaucracy.' Here's what it was to someone who helped run it

On Feb. 10, 2025, life on “the hill” as I knew it changed.The executive order eliminating the Federal Executive Institute changed the lives of so many, but especially the more than 50 contracted staff who created the environment where government leaders could learn.I remember when the property was an upscale Charlottesville hotel called the Thomas Jefferson Inn. It became the Federal Executive Institute — FEI, as many of us called it — in 1968 a…