Law school "denaming" sparks donor debacle
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 1, 2023
The board was following a new set of principles adopted earlier that year to ensure the namesakes of buildings, colleges and professorships lived up to the university’s values; the trustees decided that Williams, a wealthy tobacco farmer and slave owner, did not. Williams from its law school, Williams’s descendants were irate.
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