RECommended Reading

by Ellie Kahn, senior at NYU

Most of us make daily purchasing decisions based on our ethics. We buy local, organic, grass-fed, recycled, biodegradable, fair trade —and the list goes on. But one major financial decision that gets overlooked is banking. We sign up with whatever bank happens to come on campus, in the hope that our university has invited them there, and would not lead us astray. Sometimes you even get a free tote bag and lots of pens. But as students demanding socially responsible investment from our universities, what decisions are we making in our daily life to support this goal? How can we ask our university to invest responsibly if we are not doing so ourselves?
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