Fox News drops Ailes name from apprentice program

Fox News is changing the name of the Ailes Apprentice Program to the Fox News Apprentice Program following the ouster of founder and CEO Roger Ailes, a spokesman confirmed to The Hill.

{mosads}Ailes, who created and named the apprentice program in 2003, resigned on July 21 amid allegations of sexual harassment.

TVNewser first reported that the 12th class of the program will graduate in November under the new program name.

Another program, the Ailes Junior Reporters Program, will be referred to as the Fox News Reporter Training Program moving forward.

The news comes as Ailes’s alma mater, Ohio University, said it will continue to offer a scholarship called the Roger E. Ailes Restricted Scholarship.

The university also features a newsroom bearing Ailes’s name, which it also has no plans to change. Nine years ago, Ailes donated $500,000 to renovate the building.

Ailes, 76, graduated from Ohio University in 1962.