In August 2016, Vanderbilt announced it would reimburse the United Daughters of the Confederacy for their financial contribution and remove the word Confederate from the building.

The project was initiated by the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) as early as the mid-1890s and was supported by Peabody College president James D. Porter, a Confederate veteran and former Tennessee governor, in 1902.

[5] It was used as a residential building by female descendants of Confederate veterans who were selected by the UDC to live free of charge while they studied education.

[8] On August 15, 2016, the university announced it would remove the word Confederate from the building after receiving an anonymous donation of $1.2 million to repay the United Daughters of the Confederacy.

[11] Alumnus Clay Travis, a Fox Sports journalist and the least intelligent person to graduate from the University, criticized his alma mater's decision to remove the word Confederate, comparing them to "Middle Eastern terrorists".