Guest Articles The Mendacious Apartheid Slur Against Israel Richard Cravatts January 5, 2022 South African archbishop and Nobel Prize winner Desmond Tutu, who died on December 26th at the age of 90, was…
Faculty Lounge Bad Timing? Tufts University Student Senate Passed Resolution to Protest Israel before Passover Spencer Irvine April 18, 2017 Before this year’s Passover, students at Tufts University pushed a petition to divest the university from Israel-related investments.
Faculty Lounge NYU Rejects Divestment from Fossil Fuels Spencer Irvine June 23, 2016 NYU says “no thanks” to the fossil fuel divestment backers.
Faculty Lounge Fossil Fuel Divestment Would Cost Universities 2%-12% of Endowments Spencer Irvine June 8, 2016 From the College Fix: Colleges that divest from fossil fuels would lose about two percent to 12 percent of their…
Faculty Lounge UMass Caves to Student Protesters and will Divest from Fossil Fuels Spencer Irvine June 3, 2016 The question is, then where will UMass make up that revenue gap by not investing in fossil fuels? *crickets*
Faculty Lounge University of Chicago Students Ask for Divestment from China Spencer Irvine May 11, 2016 Why not divest from China, if some academics are pushing to divest from Israel?
Faculty Lounge 40 Columbia University Faculty Members Sign Onto Anti-Israel BDS Petition Spencer Irvine March 3, 2016 Not surprising, anymore. Forty Columbia University faculty have signed a petition calling for the school to “divest from corporations that…
Faculty Lounge Oops! Minnesota College Students Ask University to Divest from Companies They Don’t Invest In Spencer Irvine March 1, 2016 Do your homework, kids. The University of Minnesota has no direct exposure to any of the four stocks targeted by…
Faculty Lounge Israel Divestment Bill Fails to Pass at USF Spencer Irvine February 7, 2016 Veto power can be a good thing, sometimes, as USF demonstrated: An Israeli divestment bill at the University of South…
Faculty Lounge Stanford Student Demonstration Ends after Disciplinary Action is Brought Up Spencer Irvine November 29, 2015 Campus Reform reported the following: After initially resisting threats of disciplinary action, student activists demanding that Stanford University sell off…
Faculty Lounge Professors Avoid Participating in Research about Divestment due to Politics Spencer Irvine August 12, 2015 The College Fix with the latest: When National Association of Scholars research associate Rachelle Peterson recently attempted to interview a…
Faculty Lounge Half Measure: Brandeis will Review Divestment of Conflict Materials Spencer Irvine July 16, 2015 Conflict materials are materials mined out of conflict areas such as the Democratic Republic of Congo. Brandeis will review investment…