Princeton University says it will remove Woodrow Wilson’s name from campus buildings
Princeton University’s board of trustees has voted to remove Woodrow Wilson’s name from its school of public and international affairs, saying the late president’s segregationist policies make him an “especially inappropriate namesake” for a public policy school.“When a university names a school of public policy for a political leader, it inevitably suggests that the honoree is a model for students who study at the school,” university president Christopher L.
The school will now be known as the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. In addition, trustees voted to change the name of a residential college that had been named for Wilson to First College.
But the board’s action Friday underscores how the outcry over the deaths of George Floyd and other black Americans at the hands of police has forced institutions to reexamine the legacy of leaders like Wilson, who despite being hailed for his embrace of progressive ideas also held racist views.While still “recognizing and respecting” Wilson’s legacy, trustees concluded they could no longer allow the school to bear his name.
Wilson had deep ties to the university. He graduated from Princeton and from 1902 to 1910 served as the president of the university, where he was viewed as a transformational leader.He was elected the 28th president of the United States in 1912 and reelected in 1916 and was responsible for enacting the first federal laws to establish an eight-hour workday and restrict child labor. He supported women’s suffrage and won passage of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote.
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