A student protester with a banner reading ‘Hind Hall’ at a Harvard University building. Student protesters at several universities have unofficially renamed campus buildings in response to the war in Gaza.
(Frank S. Zhou/The Harvard Crimson)
Students renaming campus buildings during ongoing protests follows years of campus renaming controversies. A study of campus naming policies proposes how to make naming more inclusive.
A sign on Charlotte St., in Sackville, N.B. Women rarely come from places named after women, and the exceptions usually commemorate them differently than men.
(Peter Barr)
In the 19th century, British colonial practices of using land to fund universities was a fragmented, but far-reaching, pattern of institutional development.