The issue of Lee Hall re-emerged in 2004, and the Virginia Tech Commission on Equal Opportunity and Diversity issued recommendations to broaden education on the subject of Claudius Lee and also for strengthening diversity efforts across the university. On August 13, 2020 the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors voted to rename Lee Hall, after a petition to rename the building on Change.org gained over thirteen thousand signatures. Another residence hall, Barringer Hall, named for the sixth president of Virginia Tech, Paul Brandon Barringer, who advocated eugenics and expressed white supremacist views in his early 20th century speeches and writings was also renamed at the same time. This sentiment emerged as part of the broader social movement as a result of the ongoing George Floyd protests.