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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern


Students march to a Board of Trustees meeting in 2014 to ask Northwestern to divest its endowment funds from the coal industry. After four years of debates, discussion and waiting, Fossil Free Northwestern wants to see concrete action on the University’s divestment from nonrenewable energy.

The battle for fossil fuel divestment: How students are rebuilding a movement in the face of defeat and bureaucracy

February 25, 2019

It was 2015, and everything was falling into place for Fossil Free Northwestern. For one, the group had won student support: In a referendum included on the Associated Student Government presidential...

Feinberg Prof. Philip Greenland, chair of the Advisory Committee on Investment Responsibility. The ACIR has received its first investment proposal over two years after the committee's founding.

Advisory Committee on Investment Responsibility gains traction two years after its founding

February 24, 2019

Having received its first proposal earlier this year, the Advisory Committee on Investment Responsibility began to gain traction nearly two years after it was founded with a mission to guide ethical investments...

Members of the Advisory Committee on Investment Responsibility. Fossil Free Northwestern urged the committee to move forward with a proposal calling on the University to divest itself of all holdings in fossil fuel companies and reinvest in green energy.

First proposal submitted to ACIR demands University divestment from fossil fuel companies

February 19, 2019

In the first proposal ever submitted to the Advisory Committee on Investment Responsibility, members of Fossil Free Northwestern called on the University to divest itself of all holdings in the top 100...

Nehaarika Mulukutla speaks during ASG Senate last academic year. The Weinberg senior said ASG will appoint a student to the ACIR this week.

ASG to name last undergraduate student to socially responsible investment committee

November 13, 2017

After an expedited recruitment campaign to replace Yusuf Kudaimi on the Advisory Committee on Investment Responsibility, Associated Student Government President Nehaarika Mulukutla said a replacement would...

Members of Fossil Free NU read a statement to chief investment officer Will McLean in 2015. The University created a socially responsible investment committee to improve communication and transparency with the Board of Trustees.

Faculty debate free expression, peaceful demonstration policy in first Senate

October 5, 2017

Members of Faculty Senate discussed concerns about Northwestern’s policy on free expression and peaceful demonstration during its first meeting of the quarter Wednesday at the Pancoe Life Sciences Pavilion. The...

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