ATLANTA (AP) - Georgia’s public university system announced it will review the names of all the buildings and colleges on its campuses weeks after a column in a college newspaper advocated for changing the name of one school.
The announcement Wednesday said an advisory group will make a report to the University system’s board after the review about any recommended changes.
Officials did not explain the reason for the review, but Board of Regents Chairman Sachin Shailendra said it was important the university system “represents the very best of our state and 333,000 students.”
The announcement comes after a guest column in the University of Georgia’s student newspaper earlier this month called for the college’s journalism school, which is named after Henry Grady, to change its name, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
Grady was an editor and part-owner of The Atlanta Constitution. He advocated for a “New South” after the Civil War, and campaigned against equality for freed slaves, saying “the supremacy of the white race of the South must be maintained forever.”
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