The Huffington Post – Martin Bourqui
“When it came to the endowment, I gave my school the benefit of the doubt as a student. Surely, if it’s obvious to me and my peers that our school should invest in alignment with its values, it will be obvious to the administration once we propose it, right? Wrong. Our schools love the idea of responsible investing as a “learning experience” for students — as a sandbox for writing a research paper, or a seminar presentation — but when it comes to actually pushing for transformative change, our schools see responsible investing as little more than a threat to their reputations — and to the bottom line. And there, at that moment, they morally fail.”(more)