Dabney S. Lancaster to Change Name
Update: WSLS also has the story up now. This provides a bit more detail than the article linked below.
White Supremacy Was on Trial at Washington and Lee University. It Won.
Not Unmindful’s own Brandon Hasbrouck, an assistant professor of law at the School of Law, writes for Slate. Professor Habrouck opens the article with a brief summation of history, unadulterated and not wrapped in any mythmaking before getting to the main point of the article, as the title summarizes.
How Does a College Decide Whether to Change Its Name?
The Chronicle of Higher Education poses this question in an article by Sarah Brown talking about our situation along side that of Dixie State University in Utah…
BizJournals: Washington and Lee rejects effort to change name, vows to break from Confederate past
Business Journals reponds to the announcement of the decision to retain the name (warning: paywalled)
May Letter from the Alumni Association Board
As we approach the Board of Trustees decisions, the timing and substance of which is unknown to any of us, the Alumni Board hopes that alumni will consider joining us to embrace these aspirational principles:
Inside Higher Ed Asks: “What’s in a Name?”
A much more balanced view of the debate, giving Not Unmindful as much or more column space the those on the other side.
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