Cabrillo College is embarking on the second phase of its name-change process: proposing and approving a new name. This week, officials began publicizing a survey — open to anyone — to solicit new names for the school. Trustees Christina Cuevas and Adam Spickler gave an update on the process.
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Cabrillo College plans for 25-member advisory board, community surveys in renaming process
Cabrillo College’s governing board briefly outlined the process to rename the school at a meeting Tuesday. Among the steps: The board plans to solicit applications from campus and community members to form a “name advisory committee” of up to 25 people to help narrow the list of potential new names to three to five.
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With name change, Cabrillo College faces a reckoning over issues of history and identity
As Cabrillo College is learning, changing the name of an institution is exactly the kind of issue that often mushrooms into a larger and more painful discussion about culture and society — one that could prove to divide friends and neighbors far more than other recent political debates.
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Lookout Update: Cabrillo College renaming on track for fall decision
Students, staff, the Native American community and Cabrillo Foundation supporters have all weighed in — differently — on a possible Cabrillo name change; President Matt Wetstein emphasizes that student and Indigenous voices must be prioritized in considering the decision, which could happen this fall.
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Citing the need for more feedback, Cabrillo College postpones renaming decision to fall 2022
Since July 2020, Cabrillo College officials have been seeking community input, holding educational panels and gathering information on the impacts of changing, or keeping, the college’s name. A final report and decision was scheduled to take place this spring, but the task force is postponing the decision to fall 2022 citing a need for more community input.
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WALLACE BAINE: Is it time to jettison the name ‘Cabrillo’? Or, in fact, time to double down on it?
In his new Sunday column, our Wally takes a cue from the original Wally who is credited for the naming of Cabrillo College way back in the day. You’ve got to wait for it, but our Wally provides a pretty compelling alternative. Check it out and then offer up your own opinion.
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Cabrillo College’s first community event on potential name change draws rebukes, apology
Historian Iris Engstrand’s depiction of college namesake Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo was ‘Euro-centric, anti-indigenous,’ school officials say. ‘I’m sorry they so misinterpreted what I was really trying to put across,’ Engstrand replies.