Name Review Board recommends renaming of the Woodrow Wilson research fellowship and contextualization of AMR entryway
Reporting about the SGA, not a record of it: The Johns Hopkins News-Letter published this and the SGA did not write it, file it, or approve it. The archive holds it because the article itself uses the phrase “student government”.
Summary
- This Johns Hopkins News-Letter article covers recommendations about Woodrow Wilson’s name at the University.
- The News-Letter reported that the NRB recommended renaming the Woodrow Wilson Undergraduate Research Fellowship and keeping Wilson’s name at the AMR I entrance with added context; the Board of Trustees approved both recommendations.
- The paper reported that the NRB spent a year reviewing archival material and considered both Wilson’s achievements and his racist policies toward Black Americans.
- The article says that the Student Government Association voted unanimously in 2020 to support renaming the fellowship.
- The reporter writes that fellowship recipient Omotara Tiamiyu called the renaming overdue but said it should lead to further examination of the University’s history with racism.
- The article adds that NRB Chair Sarah O’Hagan said removing Wilson’s name from the fellowship placed responsibility for explaining his legacy on the University rather than on students and alumni.
- The paper reported that history professor Nathan Connolly called keeping Wilson’s name at the AMR entrance while removing it from the fellowship logically inconsistent.