Cockrell School of Engineering
Previously known as the College of Engineering, on July 11, 2007, the University of Texas at Austin renamed the College after 1936 graduate Ernest Cockrell Jr., whose family has over the past 30 years helped to build a $140 million endowment for the College.
Carolina Hall (Chapel Hill, North Carolina)
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill named the building after William L. Saunders in 1922, thirty years after his death. The university named the building Saunders Hall in order to commemorate William L. Saunders' service as a confederate colonel, state secretary of state, and as "Head of the Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina." Saunders Hall was built in the main quad of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus and remained there for 93 years. In 2014, university students asked trustees to rename the building due to Saunders' role as a Ku Klux Klan leader. Many asked to change the name to "Hurston Hall" to honor Zora Neale Hurston. The Board of Trustees passed a resolution to rename the building, with 10 of the 13 trustees voting for the resolution. In May 2015, the university announced that the building would be renamed "Carolina Hall", and it was officially renamed on August 13, 2015. The Board of Trustees also formulated a plan to forbid any name changes to other buildings on campus for sixteen years.