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New policies guide removal of controversial building names

Inside Higher Ed

And just this week, Cabrillo College in California announced it would change its name to distance itself from Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, an explorer who used slave labor and whose expeditions “set the stage for colonial conquest of California,” according to a report by the committee that studied the name.

Policy 101
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The divestment problem

University Business

A cornerstone of their cause is to pressure their institutions to divest from Israel and all corporations at their aid in the events following Oct. Colleges and universities have taken various stances on whether they should share their investment portfolios with their students. The Boycott, Divest and Sanctions movement saw 44 U.S.

History 105