Johns Hopkins to Remove President Woodrow Wilson’s Name From Fellowship Program
“being met with criticism both on and off campus”
By today’s standards, Woodrow Wilson was not a great guy, but he is still a former American president.
The College Fix reports:
Johns Hopkins to scrub President Woodrow Wilson’s name from program
Johns Hopkins University is preparing to remove Woodrow Wilson’s name from a fellowship program and recontextualize its use on a residence hall entryway.
The decision by the university’s Committee to Establish Principles on Naming and Name Review Board, created in 2020, is being met with criticism both on and off campus.
The board came to the decision on Oct. 24 after a year long deliberation, according to the Hub, Johns Hopkins’ news website.
It recommended that the former president’s name be removed entirely from the Woodrow Wilson Research Fellowship, which will be renamed the University Undergraduate Research Fellowship.
The board additionally advised that Wilson’s name stay up on the Alumni Memorial Residence I Wilson House entryway but that context should be added.
“Both recommendations have been approved by the university’s board of trustees,” the Hub reports.
The university media relations office did not respond to two emails this week, asking when the changes will be made and how the Wilson House entryway will be “contextualiz[ed],” as the committee recommended.
The board based its decision, in part, on what it considered to be Wilson’s negative impact on Black Americans.
These included his “segregation of federal workspaces in Washington, D.C.,” “racist views and writings,” and “tenure as president of Princeton University during which he used his administrative authority to ensure the study body remained white and male,” as reported by the Hub.
The College Republicans group at Johns Hopkins called the name change “a pointless effort” in an emailed statement last week to The College Fix.
“Efforts to rename a research fellowship or disgrace our founder serve only to fuel the toxic, grievance-perpetuating cancel culture mindset—a mindset that does nothing but fill the pockets of opportunistic faculty and feed the conceited egos of so-called ‘social justice warriors,’” the statement read.
“They accomplish nothing but erase history, relitigate disputes, and deepen our divisions,” the group stated. “America’s history has never been perfect, but it has always strived to be.”
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Wilson was a notorious DEMOCRAT racist, liar, and incipient Nazi,
Goose, gander.
We’re not “above it” until BOTH sides are above it.
Communist, not Nazi, but definitely racist.
Good. Wilson was a terrible person, and one of the worst presidents ever. Perhaps even worse than 0bama/Biden. Having been president doesn’t make him a distinguished person, it makes the USA a less distinguished country. So yes, his name should be taken off anything that his family didn’t pay for.
I was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, so I’ve kept track of their organization, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation.
The WWF was consumed by the DEI cancer, so in Nov 2020 they changed the organization’s name to The Institute for Citizens & Scholars.
The toxic cancer of DEI infected my alma mater, Caltech. They decided to remove Robert A Millikan’s name from the main library and removed some other luminaries from other spots on campus at the end of 2020 (part of the Insanity of 2020). Their explanation: Millikan and others had been members of the Human Betterment Foundation, which recommended that insane and mentally deficient people be sterilized because: they were not capable of caring for or raising a child, or they were likely to produce insane or mentally deficient children.
In California the most people sterilized on this basis was 874 in 1935. Sterilization was never applied based on race in California.
For those who consider this a barbaric practice, the state of Virginia currently allows this kind of sterilization for a person whose mental deficiency renders them permanently incapable of caring for or raising a child. (vacodefull/title54.1/chapter29/article7/Sexual Sterilization).