Yale committee recommends standards for college name change

Published December 03, 2016

Yale University's president has appointed a panel to consider whether to rename a residential college named for an ardent supporter of slavery.

President Peter Salovey said the panelists will use the recommendations of a university committee that on Friday released guidelines to follow when the school considers changing building names.

Yale has been under pressure to change the name of Calhoun College, named for former Vice President John C. Calhoun, an alumnus and supporter of slavery.

Friday's report from the Committee to Establish Principles on Renaming says changing the name of anything at the Ivy League school should be an exceptional event done only when the person was honored for a "legacy fundamentally at odds with the university's mission."

The committee cautioned that renaming should not have the effect of erasing history.

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