When I was a university student we occupied the president's office demanding that
our school divest from South Africa.
And even if no other
schools divest, it has sparked conversations on campuses across the country about a range of other ESG investment strategies.
Not exact matches
BOSTON, March 28 - A member of a Harvard University oversight board made a rare public call for the
school to
divest itself from fossil fuel stocks, a move that shows continuing divisions on the issue as a new president takes over at the institution and its leading $ 37.1 billion endowment.
There student activists persuaded the
school's chief investment officer, David Swensen, a widely respected noncorrelated investing leader, to partially
divest Yale's $ 25.6 billion endowment from the fossil fuel industry.
But after a Bushmaster rifle was used in 2012 to kill 26 people, most of them young children, at Sandy Hook Elementary
School in Newtown, Conn., public anger at Remington drove some investors to try to
divest from the company.
The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) is calling on
school pension fund managers to
divest of companies that make «assault weapons.»
DiNapoli has influenced corporations to make greater disclosure of political campaign contributions, and he
divested some stock in gun companies after the shootings at the Sandy Hook elementary
school in Connecticut.
In the past few years, students at hundreds of colleges and universities have started pushing their
schools to
divest from fossil fuel companies as a way to slow climate change.
DiNapoli and previous comptrollers have used the fund as a vehicle for social change in the past,
divesting funds from South Africa during the apartheid era, and from tobacco companies, as well as freezing and then ending investments in guns manufacturers after the Sandy Hook Elementary
School shooting.
To ensure that his
school's growing number of Hispanic students thrived, this principal had to
divest most faculty members of the notion that the welfare of newcomers was the responsibility of only ELL teachers.
«Educate Together and the Department of Education and Skills (DES) had a constructive meeting today concerning the case put forward by Educate Together in relation to enrolment levels in five
schools which opened under the patronage
divesting process.
The demands are related to major parts of the national Movement for Black for Lives platform, including a federal right to education (Invest /
Divest) and an end to
school privatization / charter
schools,
school closures, and mayoral - controlled
school boards (Community Control), all issues we are grappling with in Hartford, Connecticut.
«Budget cuts related to the student assignment system and weighted student funding disproportionately impact Level 3 and 4
schools by
divesting money away from
schools that need the resources the most.»
This recent correspondence outlines a new policy of the patronage
divesting process as «enabling diversity of provision in an area where there is no demographic imperative to establish a
school, however, the intention is that the establishment of a
divested school does not adversely affect existing primary
schools in the area.»
Schools can not
divest themselves of responsibility for the nondiscriminatory administration of
school safety measures and student discipline by relying on
school resource officers,
school district police officers, contract or private security companies, security guards or other contractors, or law enforcement personnel.
Barber has long since
divested himself of Skip Barber Racing
School, selling off controlling interest in it back in 1999.
The lower price should be more appealing towards
schools and businesses looking to
divest themselves from a copious amount of paper.
The district sought to lease or
divest the Dana site; community activists, led by Ann Tripp Jackson (then president of the Point Loma Association), lobbied for its reopening as a
school.
Beginning as a movement in 2011, young people on campuses across the US were determined that their college or university should not be putting money into fossil fuels, and urged their
schools to
divest their endowments away from fossil fuel companies.
With Swarthmore joining Hampshire, Unity, and hopefully many more, the
school can help push other colleges and universities to
divest.
Students are pushing their
schools to
divest from fossil - fuel companies.
Seven
schools committed to
divest from fossil fuels over the last year, but this fall semester, a number of colleges across the country, such as Vassar, Pomona, and Middlebury, have been rejecting student requests to dump their fossil fuel stocks.
However, by starting a divestment campaign in your Catholic diocese, university,
school, hospital or other institution you will be helping to build momentum for Pope Francis to
divest the Vatican.