The vote, originally expected later this month, came as a shock to the campus community. After nearly a decade of student activist groups pushing for Brown University to divest its endowment from ...

Divestment means excising certain investments from endowments. Arising in the late 1970s, the first demands for divestment in U.S. higher education aimed to force the South African government to end ...

A s campuses come back to life this fall, many pro-Palestinian students will resume their protests from the spring against Israel’s war on Hamas. Once again they will demand that their colleges divest ...

On Wednesday, the University announced that the Corporation will not divest from 10 companies with ties to Israel after an advisory body recommended against a divestment proposal. Students both in ...

Brown University trustee Joseph Edelman stepped down abruptly on Sunday, expressing objections to a looming October vote in which the board will decide whether to divest endowment funds from 10 ...

Brown University will not divest from companies with Israeli military ties, its governing body voted Tuesday. The decision, announced publicly Wednesday, follows a recommendation against divestment ...

Calls for divestment echoed across college campuses this spring as pro-Palestinian student protests across the country urged their schools to break from companies and institutions with business ties ...

Chants of “Disclose! Divest! We will not stop, we will not rest!” reverberated on college campuses last spring as students protested Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza. This fall, protestors have ...

Brown University has refused pro-Palestinian student demands to divest from companies doing business with Israel. The university’s highest governing body, the Corporation of Brown University, says ...

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 ...

Dozens of protesters have called for Minnesota’s state pension fund to sell off its holdings in Israel since the beginning of the war in Gaza. State leaders say they are bound to consider only ...