I find it ridiculous that the change made by the university after all of this talk was to just add Mitchell’s name to Freeman’s and then not change Ryland at all. I honestly just don’t see the logic. I feel like at that point, you’re better off doing nothing – this was just done as a way to show the students and the community that they are trying to make a change, but it feels so forced and not genuine at all. As we talked about in class, the problem is partly stemming from the fact that alumni and donors are threatening to withdraw donations to the school if the names of the buildings are changed. It always comes back to money. The school will make decisions based first and foremost on what will bring in the most money, even if that means negatively affecting the students’ and faculty’s wellbeing and sense of belonging at the university. In my opinion, not that I know anything, UR would be much better off losing some donors while making positive change rather than keeping those donors and hurting its community. And to be completely honest, if we’re still talking money, I think a decision to change the names of the buildings and a decision to improve inclusion at UR would bring in more money from alumni in the future because right now, with the decisions being made, I bet a lot of the students who graduate from here will be hesitant to donate back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I find it ridiculous that the change made by the university after all of this talk was to just add Mitchell’s name to Freeman’s and then not change Ryland at all. I honestly just don’t see the logic. I feel like at that point, you’re better off doing nothing – this was just done as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5110,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading-responses"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6517,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6516\/revisions\/6517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}