Some students, faculty, and alumni have advocated that the university disassociate itself from Lee, including advocating a change of name. Other students and alumni have defended the association with Lee. In July 2020, for the first time, university faculty (by more than a three-quarters vote) and the Executive Committee of the Student Body called for Robert E. Lee's name to be removed from the name of the university. The Board of Trustees announced the formation of a committee to consider name-change, removing portraits of Lee from diplomas, and how university names and symbols of Lee and confederates "uphold slavery" and "abhorrent racist sentiment." This committee has been studying it since.