Download or read book Divestment on Campus written by Jennifer Kibbe and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Divestment on Campus written by Jennifer Kibbe and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Free South Africa written by Daniel Armstrong and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We were the first university with a significant endowment to resolve to divest its investments in companies doing business in apartheid South Africa." -Michael I. Sovern President Emeritus Columbia University From a backyard basketball court in Compton, California, to the front line of the movement to end apartheid in South Africa, Daniel Armstrong chronicles his personal experiences as collegiate athlete and political activist at Columbia University in the 1980s. His story is one of initiative, resiliency, and determination, growing from an individual voice speaking out for a noble cause into the Coalition for a Free South Africa, whose divestment campaign inspired anti-apartheid protests on college campuses across the U.S. Armstrong provides an insider's view of the years leading up to Columbia University's decision to divest funds from corporations with operations in apartheid South Africa. This inspirational story is as much an account of history as it is a testament to how one person can spark a movement that can help change the world.
Download or read book The Divestment Penalty written by Bradford Cornell and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many university endowments and other public funds are considering divesting all companies in business “related to fossil fuels.” In this paper, I estimate the specific costs of doing so for five university endowments: Harvard, Yale, MIT, Columbia and NYU. Because none of the universities disclose their holding on a security by security basis, I constructed proxies for their holdings using mutual funds. I then examine the costs, on both a gross and a risk adjusted basis, of divesting the proxies of holdings of fossil fuel companies. The losses are not insignificant - exceeding $100 million per year for Harvard the university with the largest endowment.
Download or read book American Universities written by Meyer Feldberg and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Response of Colleges and Universities to Calls for Divestment written by Christopher A. Coons and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Inside Divestment written by Rachelle Peterson and published by . This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fossil fuel divestment movement is an attack on freedom of inquiry and responsible social advocacy in American higher education. The movement impresses on a generation of students an attitude of grim hostility to intellectual freedom, democratic self-government, and responsible stewardship of natural resources. This study shows how that is happening. Inside Divestment is the sequel to Sustainability: Higher Education's New Fundamentalism, published by the National Association of Scholars in March 2015.
Download or read book Update to IRRC s The Response of Colleges and Universities to Calls for Divestment written by Anne-Marea Griffin and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Anti Zionism on Campus written by Andrew Pessin and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-30 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1. This book is an exposition of the actual and personal consequences of the BDS assault on university campuses. 2. Its authors include a senior scholar in American history and a senior scholar in philosophy. Both are strong followers of the BDS movement on American college and university campus. Pessin maintains a news outlet on matters concerning Jews and Israel. 3. Work on antisemitism is an important component of our Jewish studies list. Books in this area provide a unique contribution to understanding the resurgence of religiously motivated violence and hate speech.
Download or read book Live Sustainably Now written by Karl Coplan and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-31 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Any realistic response to climate change will require reducing carbon emissions to a sustainable level. Yet even people who already recognize that the climate is the most urgent issue facing the planet struggle to understand their individual responsibilities. Is it even possible to live with a sustainable carbon footprint in modern American society—much less to live well? What are the options for those who would like to make climate awareness part of their daily lives but don’t want to go off the grid or become a hermit? In Live Sustainably Now, Karl Coplan shares his personal journey of attempting to cut back on carbon without giving up the amenities of a suburban middle-class lifestyle. Coplan chronicles the joys and challenges of a year on a carbon budget—kayaking to work, hunting down electric-car charging stations, eating a Mediterranean-style diet, and enjoying plenty of travel on weekends and vacations while avoiding long-distance flights. He explains how to set a personal carbon cap and measure your actual footprint, with his own results detailed in monthly diary entries. Presenting the pros and cons of different energy, transportation, and lifestyle options, Live Sustainably Now shows that there does not have to be a trade-off between the ethical obligation to maintain a sustainable carbon footprint and the belief that life should be fulfilling and fun. This powerful and persuasive book provides an individual-level blueprint for a carbon-sustainable tweak to the American dream.
Download or read book Persuasion Strategies Canadian Campus Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaigns and the Development of Activists 2012 20 written by Milan Prazak Ilnyckyj and published by Milan Prazak Ilnyckyj. This book was released on 2023-02-06 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Milan Prazak Ilnyckyj's PhD dissertation in Political Science at the University of Toronto
Download or read book Engage Or Disengage written by Marie von Bethmann and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This case study is set in mid-November 2020. The setting is Jesus College, one of Cambridge University's oldest and most prominent colleges. The protagonist is the [unnamed] College Bursar, effectively the CFO, who reports to the College Council, its governance body. Among the Bursar's responsibilities is advising the Council on the management of the college's endowment fund of £178 mn, 20% of which is invested in the centrally managed University Endowment Fund. There is growing pressure both within the college and the university to divest from both direct and indirect investments in energy companies engaged in fossil fuel extraction and supply. The Bursar has been tasked with providing guidance on the choices available to the college and the likely consequences, which such choices would entail.
Download or read book Discourse and Duty written by Laura Deeks and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The issues of the size of university endowments, the role of institutional finance in a climate-conscious globalized world, and the role of responsible investment in fiduciary law all converge in the debate over fossil fuel divestment by university endowments. This article uses Harvard and Stanford's divestment campaigns as case studies to explore the discourse of the fossil fuel divestment movement. Taking a multidisciplinary approach in the legal constructivist tradition, this article argues that because fiduciary law and the specific rules governing divestment set the bounds of the possible in the arena of endowment management, the way the campaigners “talk about” divestment matters. This article posits that because endowment trustees must justify their decisions based on fiduciary law and the rules of divestment, the campaigners should ideally be aligning their discourse to fit the legal discourse of divestment if the trustees are their target audience. Using a combination of discourse analysis, a survey of campaigners, and legal analysis, this article examines several issues. First, whether campaigners seem to understand and exhibit a sophisticated approach to the fiduciary rules governing divestment decisions. Second, whether the campaign goals and discourse reflect a more managerial worldview aligned with the world of socially responsible investing and fiduciary finance, or a more radical environmentalist worldview unsympathetic to responsible investing and distrustful of existing political and economic institutions. Third, how the discursive choices of the campaign affect the rhetorical persuasiveness of the case for fossil fuel divestment and the opportunities available to the campaigners for furthering climate action in the arena of endowment management. The analysis identifies campaign discourse typical of both the neo-liberal managerial worldview and the radical environmentalist worldview. The findings suggest that protesting the fossil fuel hegemony and pressuring the government to enact climate legislation are the core campaign goals. It is argued that the political element in the campaign is problematic given the specific fiduciary prohibitions on politically motivated divestment decisions, with the more radical discourse minimizing the campaign's persuasiveness by chafing against the specific divestment rules (viz. the rules prohibiting politically motivated divestment, requiring “insider strategies” of shareholder engagement to be exhausted first, and limiting divestment to use as a strategy of last resort). The misalignment between the campaign discourse and the rules of endowment management may have arisen as a result of misalignment between the “real” goals of the campaign, its target audience, and the choice of arena. This discursive and strategic misalignment incurs opportunity costs for advancing climate action vis-à-vis the endowments and more generally. The final analysis revisits the goals of the campaign and argues that ultimately, if the campaigners are looking for radical political and socio-economic reform, they are unlikely to find it in the conservative realm of fiduciary finance. However, particularly given the moment of flux in the relationship between ethical investing and fiduciary law, the campaigners might find fiduciary law supportive of an alternative path to more far-reaching climate action than divestment alone can deliver, viz. through stronger portfolio greening and ESG investment guidelines spanning the whole of the endowment (as opposed to one industry). It is argued that if campaigners want to green endowments, their case will be stronger the closer it is aligned with the rules and discourse of endowment management.
Download or read book When the Crisis Looms written by Sarah Gyurina and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Science on a Mission written by Naomi Oreskes and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-04-19 with total page 749 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid portrait of how Naval oversight shaped American oceanography, revealing what difference it makes who pays for science. What difference does it make who pays for science? Some might say none. If scientists seek to discover fundamental truths about the world, and they do so in an objective manner using well-established methods, then how could it matter who’s footing the bill? History, however, suggests otherwise. In science, as elsewhere, money is power. Tracing the recent history of oceanography, Naomi Oreskes discloses dramatic changes in American ocean science since the Cold War, uncovering how and why it changed. Much of it has to do with who pays. After World War II, the US military turned to a new, uncharted theater of warfare: the deep sea. The earth sciences—particularly physical oceanography and marine geophysics—became essential to the US Navy, which poured unprecedented money and logistical support into their study. Science on a Mission brings to light how this influx of military funding was both enabling and constricting: it resulted in the creation of important domains of knowledge but also significant, lasting, and consequential domains of ignorance. As Oreskes delves into the role of patronage in the history of science, what emerges is a vivid portrait of how naval oversight transformed what we know about the sea. It is a detailed, sweeping history that illuminates the ways funding shapes the subject, scope, and tenor of scientific work, and it raises profound questions about the purpose and character of American science. What difference does it make who pays? The short answer is: a lot.
Download or read book The Case Against Academic Boycotts of Israel written by Cary Nelson and published by MLA Members for Scholar's Rights. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first collection to take critical look at the international movement to boycott Israel.
Download or read book Frictional Costs of Fossil Fuel Divestment written by Hendrik Bessembinder and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advocacy for fossil fuel divestment has been growing on college campuses nationwide in recent years. In contrast with prior literature, which focuses on the impact of divestment on returns, I investigate the “frictional” costs that college and university endowments incur in implementing fossil fuel divestment, including transaction costs and ongoing monitoring and active management costs. I find that these costs are likely to be substantial, for the following reasons. First, endowments are long-term investors that tend to hold illiquid assets that are costly to sell. Second, endowments frequently invest in mutual funds or commingled funds, which requires them to sell more than just fossil-fuel-related assets in order to divest. Third, since there is no well-defined and agreed-upon list of assets that are fossil-fuel-related, investment managers must undertake a degree of active management in order to maintain compliance with divestment goals. Overall, I estimate a total cost to endowments over 20 years due to the frictional costs of divestment that range between approximately 2 and 12 percent of the endowment's value, which, for a typical large university endowment, would translate to a decline in value of between $1.4 billion and $7.4 billion.
