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Ryerson University will be renamed

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/202...e-renamed.html

Ryerson will officially be renamed, the university confirmed in a statement on Wednesday.

The university’s board of governors approved 22 recommendations laid out by the Standing Strong Task Force. The university said recommendations were informed by the participation of more than 11,000 Ryerson community members.

“The report provides clear recommendations on how the university can move forward and write the next chapter in our history,” Mohamed Lachemi, president and vice-chancellor of the university, said in a statement.

One of the recommendations was to rename the school.

The debate over the renaming of the university intensified after the statue of Egerton Ryerson, one of the architects of Canada’s residential school system, was toppled and beheaded by protestors at a rally to honour the hundreds of children whose remains were discovered at a former residential school site in Kamloops, B.C.

In the past year, as an internal rift over changing the school’s name spilled out into the public, the university lost opportunities with would-be donors while managing complaints from current donors, some of whom threatened to withhold their gifts to the university depending on how it responded to public pressure.