Editing Colgate University (section)

=== University presidents ===

{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+ class="nowrap" |List of presidents
! Number !! President !! Years served<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://colgate.edu/about/people-of-colgate/president-brian-w-casey/presidents-of-colgate|title=Presidents of Colgate|website=colgate.edu|language=en|access-date=2017-09-01}}</ref>
|-
| 1 || Nathaniel Kendrick || 1836-1848
|-
| 2 || Stephen William Taylor || 1851-1856
|-
| 3 || George Washington Eaton || 1856-1868
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| 4 || Ebenezer Dodge || 1868-1890
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| 5 || George William Smith || 1895-1897
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| 6 || [[George Edmands Merrill]] || 1899-1908
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| 7 || Elmer Burritt Bryan || 1909-1921
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| 8 || [[George Barton Cutten]] || 1922-1942
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| 9 || Everett Needham Case || 1942-1962
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| 10 || Vincent MacDowell Barnett Jr. || 1963-1969
|-
| 11 || [[Thomas A. Bartlett|Thomas Alva Bartlett]] || 1969-1977
|-
| 12 || George D. Langdon Jr. || 1978-1988
|-
| 13 || [[Neil R. Grabois]] || 1988-1999
|-
| 14 || Charles Karelis || 1999-2001
|-
| 15 || [[Rebecca Chopp]] || 2002-2009
|-
| 16 || [[Jeffrey Herbst]] || 2010-2015
|-
| 17 || [[Brian Casey (academic)|Brian Casey]] || 2016-present
|}
==== Cutten's controversial legacy ====
The [[National monument (United States)|national monument]] at [[Ellis Island]] displays a statement by Colgate's eighth president, [[George Barton Cutten]], which has been criticized for its jingoistic [[anti-immigrant|anti-immigration]] sentiment. He warned, "The danger [that] the '[[melting pot]]' brings to the nation is the breeding out of the higher divisions of the white race."<ref>{{Cite conference| publisher = U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform| last = Kraly| first = Ellen Percy| title = U.S. Immigration and the Environment: Scientific Research and Analytic Issues| date = 1995| url = http://www.utexas.edu/lbj/uscir/respapers/usi-feb95.pdf| access-date = 2007-09-01| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070927154626/http://www.utexas.edu/lbj/uscir/respapers/usi-feb95.pdf| archive-date = 2007-09-27}}</ref>

While Cutten's legacy has been marred by the espousal of [[racist]] beliefs, the contributions he made to developing the prestige and facilities of Colgate were significant. Student protests in 2006 around campus facilities bearing Cutten's name<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thecolgatemaroonnews.com/news/article_7c692240-0f41-5fc7-8a26-a3ee59767b34.html|title=A Closer Look at Cutten|last=Chopp|first=Rebecca|date=2006-03-03|publisher=The Colgate Maroon-News|access-date=2006-03-03|archive-date=2018-05-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180501110709/http://www.thecolgatemaroonnews.com/news/article_7c692240-0f41-5fc7-8a26-a3ee59767b34.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> became emblematic of the division surrounding how modern American universities should reconcile their own history with racism,<ref>{{cite news|last1=Newkirk|first1=Pamela|title=Academe Must Confront Its Racist Past|url=http://www.chronicle.com/article/Academe-Must-Confront-Its/234534|newspaper=Chronicle of Higher Education|access-date=12 April 2017}}</ref> foreshadowing future controversies in the mid-2010s at universities such as [[Yale University]]<ref>{{cite news|last1=Wang|first1=Monica|last2=Svrluga|first2=Susan|title=Yale renames Calhoun College because of historical ties to white supremacy and slavery|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2017/02/11/yale-renames-calhoun-college-because-of-historic-ties-to-white-supremacy-and-slavery/|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|access-date=9 April 2017}}</ref> and [[Harvard University]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Lartey|first1=Jamiles|date=13 April 2016|title=Racism at Harvard: months after protests began, students demand concrete change|url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/apr/13/racism-harvard-law-school-slaveholder-seal|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=9 April 2017}}</ref> Colgate removed the Cutten name from a residential complex located between Whitnall Field and Huntington Gym in 2017. Each of the four houses that compose the building—Brigham, Shepardson, Read, and Whitnall—is now known by its existing name and street address, 113 Broad Street.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://news.colgate.edu/scene/main_feature/work-play-11#cutten|title=Work & Play – Summer 2017|date=2017-08-15|work=The Colgate Scene|access-date=2018-07-11}}</ref>