Princeton’s Board of Trustees has voted to remove Woodrow Wilson’s name from the university’s School of Public and International Affairs.
June 27 (UPI) — Princeton’s Board of Trustees has voted to remove Woodrow Wilson’s name from the university’s School of Public and International Affairs.
„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,“ said a press release issued by the university Saturday.
The school has been known as the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs since 1948, but will now simply be called The Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.
The release notes that in 2015 student-led protests at the university „called attention to Wilson’s racism,“ and the university formed an ad hoc committee to study the late U.
