University Commission on History, Race, and A Way Forward

Welcome

The charge of the University Commission on History, Race, and a Way Forward is to explore, engage and teach the University’s history with race, and provide recommendations to the Chancellor on how we as a University community must reckon with the past. The Commission will focus on the following areas: archives, history and curation; curriculum development and teaching; and engagement, ethics and reckoning.

Resolution from the commission on the removal of names

This resolution was approved at the July 10 commission meeting. It contains information on the lives and work of Charles B. Aycock, Julian S. Carr, Josephus Daniels, Thomas Ruffin, and Thomas Ruffin Jr. Please note, this document contains racially offensive images and text.