Virginia seminary marks 200th anniversary by scrubbing names linked to slavery | Virginia Theological Seminary | 12/28/2023 | Buildings/Names | Yes | Canceled |
Johns Hopkins to scrub name of English professorship due to slavery link | Johns Hopkins University | 10/19/2023 | Buildings/Names | No | Canceled |
Wheaton College removes president’s name from library after racism report | Wheaton College | 10/18/2023 | Buildings/Names | No | Canceled |
Philly-area university strips eugenicist’s name from building | West Chester University | 09/12/2023 | Buildings/Names | No | Canceled |
University removes former professor's name from museum for teaching eugenics class | University of Puget Sound | 05/20/2023 | Buildings/Names | No | Canceled |
Oxford University removes Sackler name from buildings | Oxford University | 05/16/2023 | Buildings/Names | No | Canceled |
Smith College ends use of word ‘field’ to promote inclusivity | Smith College | 05/15/2023 | Buildings/Names | No | Canceled |
Student newspaper changes name due to school namesake’s colonialism, racism | McGill University | 04/15/2023 | Buildings/Names | No | Canceled |
Bryn Mawr College caves, officially removes past president’s name from library | Bryn Mawr College | 03/22/2023 | Buildings/Names | No | Canceled |
UC Berkeley strips another name -- Moses -- off building, activists want more | University of California Berkeley | 03/14/2023 | Buildings/Names | No | Canceled |
USC School of Social Work ditches word ‘field’ – could be construed as ‘anti-Black’ | University of Southern California | 01/10/2023 | Buildings/Names | No | Canceled |
Cleveland State cancels Justice John Marshall from law school name | Cleveland State University | 12/05/2022 | Buildings/Names | Yes | Canceled |
University changes ‘Thanksgiving Closure’ to ‘Fall Break’ over inclusion concerns | University of Alaska Southeast | 11/17/2022 | Buildings/Names | No | Canceled |
Law school removes T.C. Williams from name, citing slave ownership | University of Richmond | 09/25/2022 | Buildings/Names | Yes | Canceled |
Penn law school to remove name of Roger Taney, former chief justice of Supreme Court, from building | University of Pennsylvania | 06/22/2022 | Buildings/Names | No | Canceled |
To promote ‘diversity,’ schools remove word ‘women’ from clinic names | various | 05/12/2022 | Buildings/Names | No | Canceled |
Emory removes name of Supreme Court justice from 1800s because he owned slaves | Emory University | 05/06/2022 | Buildings/Names | Yes | Canceled |
College removes name of white supremacist from building | Meredith College | 04/06/2022 | Buildings/Names | Yes | Canceled |
University of Richmond changes names of six campus buildings linked to slavery, racism | University of Richmond | 03/18/2022 | Buildings/Names | Yes | Canceled |
'Bluebonnet Lady of Texas’ axed from dorm name due to Daughters of Confederacy link | Texas State University | 02/02/2022 | Buildings/Names | Yes | Canceled |
Princeton renames seminary after black seminarians complain about namesake’s ties to slavery | Princeton University | 02/01/2022 | Buildings/Names | No | Canceled |
Illinois university moves to strike name Stephen Douglas from dorm | Eastern Illinois University | 12/24/2021 | Buildings/Names | No | Canceled |
Western Washington University to strike T.H. Huxley’s name from environmental college | Western Washington University | 12/16/2021 | Buildings/Names | No | Canceled |
Indiana University renames Jordan Avenue due to former campus President Jordan's advocacy for eugenics | Indiana University | 12/06/2021 | Buildings/Names | No | Canceled |
California’s oldest law school to scrub founder’s name over ties to Native American killings | UC Hastings College of the Law | 11/10/2021 | Buildings/Names | No | Canceled |
College renames Cooper Hall to Spradley-Young Hall; a pre-Civil War scientist and alum, Cooper had defended slavery | Dickinson College | 11/04/2021 | Buildings/Names | No | Canceled |
University removes name of Revolutionary War vet from campus building over slavery concerns | Rider University | 11/01/2021 | Buildings/Names | No | Canceled |
Citing racism, Rutgers removes name of former Supreme Court justice, an alumnus, from building | Rutgers University | 10/26/2021 | Buildings/Names | No | Canceled |
College strips name ‘Linnaeus’ from its 125-acre arboretum, citing ‘scientific racism’ | Gustavus Adolphus College | 10/18/2021 | Buildings/Names | No | Canceled |
Middlebury College removes Mead Chapel name over former governor's role in eugenics | Middlebury College | 09/27/2021 | Buildings/Names | No | Canceled |
Penn removes suffragette's name from 'feminist' center to prioritize 'inclusiveness' | University of Pennsylvania | 09/24/2021 | Buildings/Names | No | Canceled |
Thomas Nelson Community College will be renamed Virginia Peninsula Community College | Thomas Nelson Community College | 09/23/2021 | Buildings/Names | No | Canceled |
Community college strips name of 10th president of U.S. from its title over his Confederacy support | John Tyler (Brightpoint) Community College | 07/19/2021 | Buildings/Names | Yes | Canceled |
University to strip name of longest serving president from campus building over racism concerns | George Washington University | 06/30/2021 | Buildings/Names | No | Canceled |
Emory renames residence hall named after former campus president because he supported slavery | Emory University | 06/30/2021 | Buildings/Names | Yes | Canceled |
Towson University removes slave owners’ names from buildings | Towson University | 06/24/2021 | Buildings/Names | Yes | Canceled |
Dixie is officially dumped in vote over university name change | Dixie State University | 06/09/2021 | Buildings/Names | Yes | Canceled |
Lord Fairfax Community College renamed to Laurel Ridge Community College | Lord Fairfax Community College | 06/04/2021 | Buildings/Names | No | Canceled |
MacDonald Hall, named after Canada’s first prime minister, renamed Residence Hall West | University of Windsor | 06/04/2021 | Buildings/Names | No | Canceled |
University cancels new building name that had just been renamed 19 days earlier to appease students | Wake Forest University | 05/28/2021 | Buildings/Names | No | Canceled |
Fourth Supreme Court Justice John Marshall, who owned slaves, has named stripped from law school | University of Illinois | 05/24/2021 | Buildings/Names | Yes | Canceled |
University strips George Merrick from parking garage, Henry Fillmore from rehearsal hall over racism concerns | University of Miami | 05/12/2021 | Buildings/Names | No | Canceled |
University removes name of former Dean E.E. Davis, say he was biased against the poor and ethnic minorities | University of Texas Arlington | 05/06/2021 | Buildings/Names | No | Canceled |
College of William and Mary renames three campus buildings and football field | College of William and Mary | 04/23/2021 | Buildings/Names | Yes | Canceled |
UNA removes Democrat Gov. Bibb Graves’ name from campus signage | University of North Alabama | 04/05/2021 | Buildings/Names | Yes | Canceled |
Virginia State University to remove names on four buildings due to racism, Confederacy concerns | Virginia State University | 03/25/2021 | Buildings/Names | Yes | Canceled |
Florida State University orders slaveowner’s name stripped from building | Florida State University | 02/15/2021 | Buildings/Names | Yes | Canceled |
University of Alabama removes George C. Wallace from building over his support of racial segregation | University of Alabama | 02/08/2021 | Buildings/Names | Yes | Canceled |
Caltech to remove the names of six eugenics proponents from buildings, honors | California Institute of Technology | 01/15/2021 | Buildings/Names | No | Canceled |
Delmar T. Oviatt name stripped from campus library over racism concerns | California State University Northridge | 12/18/2020 | Buildings/Names | No | Canceled |
Cornell renames Goldwin Smith professorships, calls 19th century namesake 'anti-Semitic, anti-feminist, anti-suffrage' | Cornell University | 12/14/2020 | Buildings/Names | No | Canceled |
Jordan Hall renamed 'Biology Building' due to former President Jordan's advocacy for eugenics | Indiana University | 12/01/2020 | Buildings/Names | No | Canceled |
University of California Berkeley to remove names of LeConte and Barrows halls due to ‘controversial legacies’ | University of California Berkeley | 11/18/2020 | Buildings/Names | Yes | Canceled |
Trustee's name removed from building | Michigan State University | 11/17/2020 | Buildings/Names | Yes | Canceled |
University to rename buildings named after two former Govs Braxton Bragg Comer and Bibb Graves | University of Montevallo | 09/30/2020 | Buildings/Names | Yes | Canceled |
University of Alabama renames hall that honored 'ardent white supremacist' U.S. Sen. John Tyler Morgan | University of Alabama | 09/17/2020 | Buildings/Names | Yes | Canceled |
Edinburgh U. cancels Scotland’s greatest philosopher, David Hume, in name of antiracism | University of Edinburgh | 09/14/2020 | Buildings/Names | No | Canceled |
UVA removes Withers from Withers-Brown Hall due to slave ownership, Confederate leadership | University of Virginia | 09/11/2020 | Buildings/Names | Yes | Canceled |
UVA strips name Curry from School of Education and Human Development due to slave ownership, Confederate leadership | University of Virginia | 09/11/2020 | Buildings/Names | Yes | Canceled |
Columbia med school removes founder’s name because he owned slaves | Columbia University | 09/09/2020 | Buildings/Names | Yes | Canceled |
Troy University renames Bibb Graves Hall in honor of John Lewis | Troy University | 09/02/2020 | Buildings/Names | Yes | Canceled |
University removes name of civil rights activist from its Theatre Arts Center over tangential racism concerns | University of Wisconsin Oshkosh | 08/18/2020 | Buildings/Names | Yes | Canceled |
University at Buffalo to remove U.S. President Millard Fillmore’s name from campus | University at Buffalo | 08/04/2020 | Buildings/Names | Yes | Canceled |
Catholic university cancels Catholic writer Flannery O’Connor. But scholars say she’s been wrongly maligned. | Loyola Maryland | 07/31/2020 | Buildings/Names | No | Canceled |
Board of Trustees approves the removal of four names from campus buildings | University of North Carolina Chapel Hill | 07/29/2020 | Buildings/Names | Yes | Canceled |
Monmouth University removes Woodrow Wilson’s name from building | Monmouth University | 07/21/2020 | Buildings/Names | No | Canceled |
Elon University removes former President William Harper’s name from residence hall | Elon University | 07/07/2020 | Buildings/Names | Yes | Canceled |
James Madison University removes names of three Confederates from buildings | James Madison University | 07/07/2020 | Buildings/Names | Yes | Canceled |
Queens University of Charlotte renames building after discovery of ties to slavery | Queens University of Charlotte | 07/02/2020 | Buildings/Names | Yes | Canceled |
Name of former NC governor 'Hoey' removed from campus auditorium due to his opposition of racial intergration in 1900s | Western Carolina University | 06/29/2020 | Buildings/Names | No | Canceled |
Woodrow Wilson's name removed from multiple campus buldings | Princeton University | 06/27/2020 | Buildings/Names | No | Canceled |
Alabama A&M renaming hall named after Democrat Gov. Bibb Graves | Alabama A&M | 06/26/2020 | Buildings/Names | Yes | Canceled |
NC State removes name 'Daniels' from 'Daniels Hall' | North Carolina State University | 06/22/2020 | Buildings/Names | Yes | Canceled |
Oklahoma State U. removes Gov. William 'Alfalfa Bill' Murray's name from buildings over racism concerns | Oklahoma State University | 06/19/2020 | Buildings/Names | No | Canceled |
Former LSU president Troy Middleton's name removed from library over racism concerns | Louisiana State University | 06/19/2020 | Buildings/Names | No | Canceled |
Clemson removes Calhoun name from Honors College | Clemson University | 06/15/2020 | Buildings/Names | Yes | Canceled |
USC renames Von Kleinsmid Center because namesake was 'a known eugenicist' | University of Southern California | 06/11/2020 | Buildings/Names | No | Canceled |
Shenandoah University removes Harry F. Byrd, Jr.'s name from School of Business | Shenandoah University | 06/10/2020 | Buildings/Names | Yes | Canceled |
University removes slave owner’s name to create a ‘more inclusive community’ | University of Cincinnati | 12/23/2019 | Buildings/Names | Yes | Canceled |
College strips name of its founder from building, cites ‘racism’ against Native Americans | Macalester College | 12/11/2019 | Buildings/Names | No | Canceled |
SUNY New Paltz leaders vote to rename dorms named after town’s 17th century settlers, citing slavery | SUNY New Paltz | 03/15/2019 | Buildings/Names | Yes | Canceled |
UC Berkeley to remove historic Boalt name associated with law school, citing racism | University of California Berkeley | 01/11/2019 | Buildings/Names | No | Canceled |
Duke University removes Confederate veteran Julian Carr's name from building | Duke University | 12/02/2018 | Buildings/Names | Yes | Canceled |
Citing ‘violence against California Native Americans,’ Stanford to ax Junipero Serra’s name from campus features | Stanford University | 09/21/2018 | Buildings/Names | No | Canceled |
Ball State to remove Papa John’s name from business program | Ball State University | 08/16/2018 | Buildings/Names | No | Canceled |
Porter Butts Gallery at Wisconsin Union renamed due to involvement with group with same name as KKK | University of Wisconsin Madison | 08/07/2018 | Buildings/Names | No | Canceled |
Women's college abandons class names due to vague association with the KKK | Wesleyan College | 08/07/2018 | Buildings/Names | Yes | Canceled |
Bucknell U. wastes no time deleting references to alumnus Les Moonves | Bucknell University | 07/31/2018 | Buildings/Names | No | Canceled |
University of Louisville to rename Papa John’s Cardinal Stadium | University of Louisville | 07/13/2018 | Buildings/Names | No | Canceled |
Fredric March name removed from union due to involvement with group with same name as KKK | University of Wisconsin Madison | 06/25/2018 | Buildings/Names | No | Canceled |
UPitt removes name of Thomas Parran from building due to 'racist and unethical medical experiments' | University of Pittsburg | 03/30/2018 | Buildings/Names | No | Canceled |
University strips name of its former president due to 'his support of eugenics and advocacy for tobacco' | University of Michigan | 03/29/2018 | Buildings/Names | No | Canceled |
College bar's 'Make America Jolly Again' event canceled because of name | Case Western Reserve University | 02/07/2018 | Buildings/Names | No | Canceled |
Student newspaper does away with 'Crusader' moniker | College of the Holy Cross | 02/05/2018 | Buildings/Names | No | Canceled |
USC female empowerment group takes ‘women’ out of its name — to be more inclusive | University of Southern California | 12/17/2017 | Buildings/Names | No | Canceled |
College begins excising references to its founder on campus buildings | Bryn Mawr College | 08/26/2017 | Buildings/Names | No | Canceled |
ESPN refuses to apologize for pulling reporter named 'Robert Lee' from college football game | University of Virginia | 08/23/2017 | Buildings/Names | Yes | Canceled |
Rice U. does away with ‘master’ term, cites ‘negative historical connotation’ | Rice University | 04/11/2017 | Buildings/Names | Yes | Canceled |
Yale to rename Calhoun College after extended protest campaign | Yale University | 02/12/2017 | Buildings/Names | Yes | Canceled |
University of Oregon strips name of former KKK leader from campus building | University of Oregon | 09/08/2016 | Buildings/Names | Yes | Canceled |