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In April, Yale University, which has one of the highest performing endowments in the world, announced that it would partially divest its endowment from fossil fuels, citing the financial risks of fossil fuel holdings. Yale’s decision fundamentally changes the conversation on divestment here at Swarthmore– in fact, Swarthmore’s endowment is modeled on that of Yale’s…
Director of Sustainability Aurora Winslade and Vice President for Finance and Administration Greg Brown shared the following community message this week: Dear Swarthmore Community, We are pleased to announce that, based on a proposal put forward by a group of faculty and staff, Swarthmore College has implemented a Carbon Charge in its operating budget, beginning at the start of the fiscal year on July 1, 2016.
Illustration by Nicholas Massarelli Swarthmore students helped spark a national movement toward fossil fuel divestment. But their own school has yet to take action. by Steve Neumann When freshman Kate Aronoff arrived in 2010 on the small, idyllic campus of Swarthmore College, a “Little Ivy” tucked away in the suburbs of Philadelphia, she was already eager to become an activist.
Black and White by Heather Shayne Blakeslee Forget the Lafayette vs. Lehigh football rivalry, a Pennsylvania matchup that began in 1884. The longest running rivalry in college sports is progressive students and faculty lining up against conservative university administrations-and socially conservative thought in general.
Vassar students have proved that they support fossil fuel divestment on paper and in practice. 91 percent of students voted in support of fossil fuel divestment in the recent referendum and more than 400 people showed up to the sit-in conducted by Vassar College Fossil Fuel Divestment Camp…
On April 12th, Yale’s Chief Investment Officer David Swensen announced the school’s decision to partially divest its endowment from fossil fuels. Swensen cited not ethical reasons, but financial prudence, as the top motivator behind the decision. Yale’s divestment came after Swensen asked their investment managers to consider the potential risks that investments in coal and…
Students at nearly a dozen U.S. colleges have planned protests in recent weeks targeting their schools’ investments in the oil, gas and coal sectors, part of a coordinated push to stop colleges from funding companies that contribute to global warming.
Ben Goloff is a member of the Class of 2015, and is currently working on a Masters at Oxford in environmental governance. Digging for slugs – muddying my fingernails, dodging bits of plastic or used Band-Aids – my sense of struggle as a five-year old New Yorker was simpler than it is now.
The divestment movement has escalated in recent weeks due to a coordinated effort on college campuses in Mass. and beyond. As they lined both sides of a hallway in UMass Amherst’s Whitmore Administration Building last week, dozens of students chanted “Ain’t no power like the power of people, ’cause the power of people don’t stop.”