In the 2015–16 school year, the colleges' relation to slavery and racial oppression received heavy attention. In the aftermath of the Charleston shooting, Calhoun College received particular attention as one of several American institutions named for the white supremacist Vice President. Simultaneously, the word "master", a title borrowed from the UK collegiate tradition but also a synonym for "slaveowner" in the U.S., received scrutiny at several U.S. universities. In April 2016, Yale followed Harvard and MIT in changing the appellation of "Master" to "Head of College," but declined to rename Calhoun College. The same decision announced Benjamin Franklin, also a slaveowner, as the namesake of one of two new colleges. In February 2017, however, the school reversed its decision regarding the renaming of Calhoun College and chose the new name of Grace Hopper College, in honor of the United States Navy rear admiral and pioneer computer scientist, Grace Hopper.