After a racially motivated shooting in Charleston earlier this month left nine black people dead, a nationwide conversation about the Confederate flag began. Politicians jumped on the bandwagon, major corporations removed merchandise displaying the flag from their shelves and the topic pervaded social media and news coverage. At the University of Texas at Austin, students are lobbying to remove a statue of Jefferson Davis, the Confederate president. But for some colleges, it's not just a statue under scrutiny, but the institution -- there are colleges named for people like Davis and John C. Calhoun.

July 1, 2015 ・ From Inside Higher Ed