UMN could replace names on over 30 buildings with 'new people to honor'
Most University of Minnesota buildings would be renamed after 75 years under a proposed policy change recently presented to the Board of Regents.
President Joan Gabel said the U has a limited number of nameable assets, and the change would enable the board to honor new people.
“If university namings and who we honor is a representation of us, of what we achieve, of our impact, of our progress, then our physical landscape of those buildings should evolve as we do,” she said. “As we have new achievements, new people to honor, new progress, so should our landscape evolve to reflect that.”
The proposal comes four years after a library exhibit at the U, “A Campus Divided,” presented evidence that three former administrators promoted segregated student housing in the 1930s and 1940s, while a fourth targeted Jewish and communist students.
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