College president, vice president stepping down after mural censorship controversy
College Fix Staff •March 4, 2020
‘An apology…is not really enough’
A controversy at Seattle’s Bellevue College involving the censorship of a campus mural has resulted in the school’s president and vice president both stepping down from their posts, with a college trustee admitting that the scandal has damaged the school’s reputation on a national scale.
Bellevue made headlines last week when it came to light that an on-campus mural marking the forced internment of local Japanese-American citizens during World War II had been censored to cover up embarrassing information about a prominent local family. A section of the installation highlighting the Freeman family’s involvement in that internment had been awkwardly whited out before being clumsily re-installed.
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