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Davidson College's Commitment to Education and Reconciliation

Davidson College releases an account of the ties between Maxwell Chambers and the college, and details its work on understanding the college’s history regarding slavery and expanding its commitment to education and reconciliation efforts in the present and future. Learn more.

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College Plans Educational Role for Beaver Dam Property

Davidson College is examining the history of the Beaver Dam plantation house and property in an effort to determine how best to preserve the property and utilize it as an educational site for the college and the public. Learn more.

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Honoring and Remembering Begins With Stories Rather Than Stone

The Trustees’ Special Committee on Commemoration started with a clear focus: It’s about the people. The committee began with the fundamentals of understanding those whom the college seeks to commemorate – the enslaved persons and others whose labor was exploited for the college.

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For Trustees, Learning Comes Before Deciding

A special committee of trustees, whose members range from a business owner to a congressional staffer to an advertising executive, was tasked in the fall of 2020 with working toward a college policy on naming and acknowledgment.