Vanderbilt University announced on Monday that it will change the name of Confederate Memorial Hall, a dormitory whose name invoked racial segregation, The Tennessean reported.

The removal, which the school had tried to complete for more than a decade, came with a hefty $1.2 million price tag.

Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos wrote a note to the Vanderbilt community explaining the need for the change:

“Ever since I joined the Vanderbilt community in 1987, the residence hall bearing the inscription Confederate Memorial Hall has been a symbol of exclusion, and a divisive contradiction of our hopes and dreams of being a truly read more >>>

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