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The Daily Northwestern

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

The Daily Northwestern


Last weeks ACIR meeting in Guild Lounge. Students expressed concerns at the time over the lack of a trustee decision on Fossil Free Northwestern’s divestment proposal.

Board of Trustees rejects Fossil Free divestment proposal

February 20, 2020

The Investment Committee of the Board of Trustees rejected Fossil Free Northwestern’s divestment proposal calling for the University to divest from any of the top 100 coal and oil and gas companies,...

Over a hundred undergraduate students gathered in Scott Hall Thursday. Students expressed frustrations over the lack of progress in implementing Fossil Free Northwestern.

One year after calls for divestment, Northwestern’s Board of Trustees continues to refrain from action

November 8, 2019

After a year of inaction from the Board of Trustees, students renewed their calls for Northwestern divest from fossil fuels during the Advisory Committee on Investment Responsibility’s open meeting Thursday. Students...

Northwestern elected six new members to the Board of Trustees, a University news release announced.

Northwestern announces six new members elected to Board of Trustees

October 7, 2019

Northwestern named six new members to the Board of Trustees, a University news release announced. Here are the new trustees: Courtney D. Armstrong (McCormick '93, Pritzker '96, Kellogg '96) Armstrong...

Students participate in the global climate change strike on Friday. Though strike was part of an international movement, student organizers wrote demands targeted at Northwestern policy as well

As budget cuts hurt sustainability efforts, students join global climate strike

March 16, 2019
Students and Evanston residents gathered at The Rock to participate in a global movement of protests against climate change.
Students protest Northwestern’s investments in the coal industry in 2014. Members of Fossil Free Northwestern, the group pushing for divestment from coal, oil and gas companies, have been fighting against the University’s investment in the fossil fuel industry for years.

ASG passes resolution calling on University to divest from the fossil fuel industry

March 15, 2019
The resolution will now be reviewed by Northwestern’s Advisory Committee on Investment Responsibility, a coalition of students, alumni, faculty and administrators. The committee will decide whether to recommend the proposal to the Investment Committee of the University’s Board of Trustees, who will then vote on the resolution.
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