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Applying Principles

The University’s principles to govern renaming and changes to campus iconography include four criteria to help guide specific decisions about renaming and changing campus iconography. Any or all of the proposed criteria may be relevant to a particular case. Please explain how any, some, or all of these criteria are relevant to the campus iconography in question.

Is a central part of the legacy of the namesake in question fundamentally at odds with the mission of the University?

Was the relevant central part of the legacy in question significantly contested in the time and place in which the namesake lived, or significantly out of step with the standards of the namesake’s time?

Did the University, at the time of a naming, honor a namesake for reasons that are fundamentally at odds with the mission of the University?

Does a building or program whose namesake has a central legacy fundamentally at odds with the University’s mission play a substantial role in forming community at the University?

What scholarly expertise, community input, or other information would you suggest the committee consider with regard to the iconography in question?

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