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May 9, 2024

Columbia Could Take Major Financial Hit Over Response to Gaza Protests

More than 1,000 alums have pledged to withhold support from the school.

April 22, 2024

Here’s What the Columbia University Protests Have Started Elsewhere

Columbia students’ protest in support of Palestine has sparked solidarity demonstrations across the country.

October 12, 2022

Ilana Cohen, Michael E. Mann

Princeton Will Stop Taking Oil Money. Now the Pressure Is on Harvard, MIT, and Columbia.

Rich, elite institutions should stop taking donations from the fossil fuel industry immediately, to preserve the integrity of their climate research.

June 8, 2020

Benjamin Franta

The Pernicious Influence of Big Oil on America’s Universities

Stanford’s divestment debate shows how effective fossil fuel companies have been at colonizing academia.

December 2, 2015

The fossil fuel divestment movement reached a new milestone: $3.4 trillion in assets.

September 22, 2015

Emma Foehringer Merchant

Over $2 Trillion Now Divested From Fossil Fuels. Why Hasn't the Vatican Joined?

May 21, 2015

Divestment Won't Hurt Big Oil, and That's OK

May 23, 2014

The Truth About Stanford's Coal Divestment

December 11, 2013

Gun Control Advocates Are Embracing a Tactic That Beat Apartheid