A school named for Woodrow Wilson at Princeton University will now be known as the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
Princeton University’s board of trustees voted Friday to remove Woodrow Wilson’s name from its public-policy school, the latest in a string of institutions reconsidering the names of some buildings and programs at a time of public reckoning over racism in the U.S.
“We have taken this extraordinary step because we believe that Wilson’s racist thinking and policies make him an inappropriate namesake for a school whose scholars, students, and alumni must be firmly committed to combatting the scourge of racism in all its forms,”...
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