UNC-Chapel Hill's Board of Trustees has voted to lift a 16-year moratorium on renaming campus buildings. The board itself implemented the freeze in 2015 after agreeing to change the name of a campus building named for a reputed KKK leader.
The Board of Trustees at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill voted to lift a moratorium on renaming campus buildings and memorials. About 30 campus buildings are thought to have namesakes with ties to white supremacy or slavery.The Board of Trustees at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill voted to lift a moratorium on renaming campus buildings and memorials. About 30 campus buildings are thought to have namesakes with ties to white supremacy or slavery.
"Many people have realized it's important to move forward with some of these issues. And that's what we intend to do on this campus," said Board of Trustees Chair Richard Stevens, as NPR member station WUNC reports."It's a moment of leadership. It's time to do it." The freeze on renaming any campus buildings, monuments, memorials and landscapes was implemented by the board in 2015, after it voted to change the name of a classroom building named for William Saunders, reputedly a Ku Klux Klan leader.
The board said at the time that the 16-year moratorium would give the university time"develop new education initiatives and evaluate their effectiveness", according to
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