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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...