Cabrillo Name Exploration

Name Exploration Subcommittee

For the most current information, please refer to the website.

• Name Change Exploration Subcommittee:  Final Report (November 2022)
• Name Change Exploration Subcommittee Report (September 2023)

Cabrillo Name Exploration History and Process

• York, Jessica A.  "Cabrillo College - Board votes to delay school name change " (13 Sept. 2023).
• Wissman, Sara.  "Delayed Name Change at Cabrillo College" (17 Aug. 2023).
• Hattis, PK. "Cabrillo College trustees vote to change school’s name" (16 Nov. 2022)
• Koenig, John Louis.  "Cabrillo trustees consider name change after teachers file petition" (7 Apr. 2021)
• Ibarra, Nick.  "Cabrillo College’s First Community Event on Potential Name Change Draws Rebukes, Apology." (23 Mar. 2021)
• Ibarra, Nick.  "Should Cabrillo Change it's Name?  Community Conversations Begin." (14 Mar. 2021)
• Guild, Todd.  "Cabrillo Mulls a Name Change"  (22 July 2020)
• Govsky, John.  (It's Time to) Rename Cabrillo College

School Name Changes

UC Berkeley  Building Name Review Committee (2023)

Sac City Unified Board of Education Votes to Rename Three Schools (23 July 2023)

UC Hastings Law: Message from Chancellor & Dean David Faigman: Name Change (2022)

CalTech: "Caltech: Caltech to Remove the Names of Robert A. Millikan and Five Other Eugenics Proponents from Buildings, Honors, and Assets" (2021)

USC: "A USC Building Stripped of Eugenicist’s Name Will Instead Honor a Native American Alumnus" (2021)

Taketa, Kristin. "San Diego Unified Changes Name of Junipero Serra High School, Removes Conquistador Mascot" (2021)

Stanford: "Stanford Will Rename Campus Spaces Named for David Starr Jordan and Relocate Statue Depicting Louis Agassiz" (2020)

Hartnell: "Faculty Resurrect Idea to Give the School a Name That Carries Less Baggage" (2020)

Inside Higher Ed "Campuses Reckon With Racist Past"  (2020)

Grantham-Philips, Wyatte. "Not just Confederate Statues: Indigenous Activists Want Spanish Conquistadors, Missionaries Removed"  (2020)

Monuments Debates

"Confederate Remembrance" 

Karaim, Reed. "Monument Protests"

Kennicott, Philip. "With $250 Million Initiative, Mellon Foundation Wades into Monuments Controversy, Hoping for Positive Change" 

Kryder-Reid, Elizabeth. California Mission Landscapes : Race, Memory, and the Politics of Heritage. 

Nuñez, Tony.  "City Council Votes to Move George Washington Statue from Plaza to Library"  

"Support for the Removal of Confederate Statues among US Adults, 2020" 

Rubertone, Patricia E. Archaeologies of Placemaking : Monuments, Memories, and Engagement in Native North America.