Stanford President David Starr Jordan’s Name To Be Removed From Campus Spaces Over Role In Eugenics Movement

From CBS San Francisco:

October 8, 2020 at 11:54 am

STANFORD (CBS SF) – Stanford University announced this week that it will remove the name of David Starr Jordan, the school’s first president, from several campus landmarks over his role promoting the eugenics movement.

The university said Jordan’s name would be removed from Jordan Hall, which is home to the school’s psychology department, along with the Jordan Quad and Jordan Modulars, along with Jordan Way near the Stanford Medical Center.

University president Marc Tessier-Levigne and the school’s board of trustees approved the changes following a review of Jordan’s legacy that was summed up in a report completed last month. In his writings, Jordan denigrated numerous races and cultures and believed the efficacy of education was limited by genetic potential. He also advocated for eugenics policies that ultimately led to forced sterilizations and was instrumental in the creation of the American Breeders Association Eugenics Committee, which has been dubbed “the first eugenics body in the United States.”

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