College campuses can sometimes plant the seeds for dramatic shifts in public policy. This was most evident in the 1980s, when students across the country protested apartheid in South Africa. By ...
Vincent Lloyd '03 insists that he does not deliver a message of intolerance or prejudice when he talks about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and his commitment to the campaign to divest University ...
Green Mountain College today announced that it is divesting its $3.1 million endowment from fossil fuel companies, making the Poultney liberal arts school the fifth college in the nation — and the ...
Consider it a good sign for the growing movement for divestment from fossil fuels: Middlebury College president Ronald Liebowitz announced today that the college is initiating a “formal process” to ...
The Rockefeller Brothers Fund announced their decision to join the divestment movement last week, pledging to sell assets tied to fossil fuel companies from their portfolios and to continue investing ...
As part of our continuing series on BDS and its impact on the art world, we received the following response to curator Manon Slome’s “A Response to the Call to Boycott Israel” by artist Doris Bittar.
A movement to divest from fossil fuel is gaining support among foundations as activists push for funding to be shifted away from coal, oil, and natural gas. The call from activists to the charitable ...
As a graduate of COM at Boston University (1999), I am writing in response to the article about the divest from Israel petition being circulated at BU. As an alumnus of BU (COM ’99) and currently a ...
A group of protesters known as the “Climate Lamentors” stand in front of the CalPERS board of administration during an investment committee meeting on Monday, Nov. 17, urging the board to divest from ...
Alongside threats of funding cuts, tax hikes and tariffs, pressure to divest from certain areas of investments is among the issues throwing university and college endowments into the spotlight. And ...