This chapter delves into the recent wave of student protests on North American college campuses urging actions such as financial transparency on endowment funds and divestment from Israel-related investments in response to the war in Gaza.
Protestors at universities across the country have been demanding that their institutions divest from companies that are tied to Israel or the war in Gaza, a demand universities have long rejected as antisemitic.
On today’s Big Take podcast, Sarah Holder talks to Bloomberg higher education reporter Janet Lorin and California reporter Eliyahu Kamisher about what’s really inside endowment funds and why universities are unlikely to yield to the calls of disclose and divest.