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New policies guide removal of controversial building names

Inside Higher Ed

As more institutions face calls to banish the names of controversial figures from campus, many are developing new policies to guide the process and determine when it is appropriate to remove a building’s name—sometimes referred to as “denaming” or “unnaming.”

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Venezuelan Higher Education

HESA

Institutionally, there has been furious controversy as the government has tried to reduce institutional autonomy and control institutions directly through political means. Universities – and their students – have as a result become one of the government’s biggest institutional barriers to one-party absolutism. It was very open.