Divestment Resources from Cornell faculty:
Suggestions for Other Universities’ Faculty Divestment Movements
Cornell Faculty Senate Resolution and Appendix
Slides presented at Cornell Faculty Senate and student statement
Letter from faculty to faculty requesting support for divestment
Letter from students to faculty requesting support for divestment
Faculty letter to campus newspaper (Daily Sun)
Faculty letter to local newspaper (Ithaca Journal)
Press release after passage of divestment resolution in Cornell Faculty Senate
General Divestment Resources:
Bill McKibben’s Rolling Stone articles: “Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math” and “The Case for Fossil Fuel Divestment”
Cornell Alumni Magazine: Endowments 101
New York Times: “Why Divestment Can be Successful”
GoFossilFree.org: Letter from Frontline Activists
Huffington Post: Why Sterling College Divested from Fossil Fuels
Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education: Divestment webinar
TAKEAWAY: Unity College has been divesting since 2008, has seen no impact on its portfolio, and is even performing better than marking benchmarks
Responsible Endowments Coalition: resources
GreenBiz.com: “College endowments lose top grades in sustainable investments”
