"The university has decided not to strip Calhoun’s name from the college, so named in the 1930s, though it will drop the title “master” used for the faculty members who head Yale’s residential communities, following similar moves at Princeton and Harvard. Yale will also name its two new residential colleges, set to open in the fall of 2017, after Benjamin Franklin, the inventor and founding father, and Anna Pauline Murray, a lawyer and civil rights activist and the first black woman ordained as a priest in the Episcopalian church.
The decisions, announced in a Wednesday email from University President Peter Salovey, mark the latest chapter in a searing campus debate over names and symbols that appear to some as relics of white supremacy. The debate reached a fever pitch last fall, when incidents unrelated to the names — involving a fraternity party and Halloween attire — touched off protest among minority students who charged their university with treating them as second-class citizens."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/04/27/yale-keeps-the-calhoun-name-despite-racial-concerns-but-ditches-the-master-title/?tid=pm_local_pop_b
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