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University of Michigan Removes Name Of Former UMaine President, Jackson Lab Founder From Building

The University of Michigan will strip the name of a former University of Maine president from a campus building.

Michigan’s Board of Regents voted to remove Clarence Little’s name Thursday night. Little became Michigan’s president after leaving UMaine.

Critics say Little supported selective reproduction, also known as eugenics, and that those teachings have been embraced by white supremacists.

Little’s name is also on a building at the University of Maine. In an email, a UMaine spokesperson says that while the university is always open to discussion around community concerns, at this point there has been no formal consideration of a name change.

According to its website, Little founded the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor in 1929.

Little was also accused of sowing doubt about the connection between smoking and cancer.

Ed Morin
Ed is a Maine native who spent his early childhood in Livermore Falls before moving to Farmington. He graduated from Mount Blue High School in 1970 before going to the University of Maine at Orono where he received his BA in speech in 1974 with a broadcast concentration. It was during that time that he first became involved with public broadcasting. He served as an intern for what was then called MPBN TV and also did volunteer work for MPBN Radio.