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William & Mary alum Art Matsu, one of five persons of Asian American and Pacific Island ancestry to be recognized for contributions to Virginia and the nation, will be honored with a historic marker.

ALL WHRO SITES Photo from Virginia Media. William & Marys Board of Visitors voted on Friday to rename Taliaferro Hall and other buildings around campus. William & Mary Renames Buildings With Connections To Confederacy, White Supremacy Details Published: 23 April 2021 The College of William & Mary will change the names of several buildings that honor men with ties to the Confederacy and white supremacy. The school’s board of visitors voted on Friday to rename...

Photo - of - by staff |  April 23, 2021 Following a consultative and thorough process established earlier this year, William & Mary’s Board of Visitors voted Friday to rename two campus buildings and name one campus structure to honor trailblazing alumni who helped open the door for marginalized people at both the university and beyond. Morton Hall will become John E. Boswell Hall, named for an alumnus, recognized scholar and ...

The buildings under consideration are Taliaferro Hall, named for Confederate Army Brig. Gen. William Booth Taliaferro, who also served as rector of the college and president of the Board of Visitors; and Morton Hall, named for Richard Lee Morton, longtime chairman of W&M’s history department, whose writings have been questioned as being racist.

by staff |  February 26, 2021 William & Mary’s Working Group on the Principles of Naming and Renaming (PNR) this week presented its final report to President Katherine A. Rowe, who accepted it during the Board of Visitors meeting Thursday in the Alumni House. The roughly 50-page report, which is available on the working group’s website, includes a list of recommendations for how the university should move forward in reviewin...