Press Clips
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The following is a sample of coverage of the work of the Responsible Endowments Coalition, in addition to REC action on campus. If your campus group has gotten some good press, don’t forget to contact us and we’ll post it here! November 2, 2011 Student Activists Pressure Colleges to Participate in Bank Transfer Day, GOOD, Liz Dwyer November 2, 2011 Some Challenges with SRI on Campus, On responsible investing at colleges and universities and its opportunities and challenges, Anne C. Logue October 27, 2011 Among "Occupy" Solutions, Invest Locally, University of San Francisco Foghorn, Caitlin Dally October 26, 2011 Oxfam Goes to Wall St., Examines SU's Investments, Seattle University Spectator, Kellie Cox October 24, 2011 A Case for Community Investment, Brown Daily Herald, Ian Trupin October 19, 2011 Students: It's Our Money. Let's Take It Back!, Why students and colleges should break up with their banks! Student leader, Molly Gott, Washington University in St. Louis October 10, 2011 To the Trustees of Wesleyan University, The Wesleyan Argus. Joshua Krugman, Paul Blasenheim and Eliana Theodorou October 9, 2011 From #OccupyWallStreet to #OccupyCampus? On universities involvement with the banks, and what they can do about it. REC Executive Director Dan Apfel March 30, 2011 — Ethical Endowments? How Universities are Moving Towards Responsible Investment, Business Today Magazine by Brandon Iglesias. Features an interview with REC Executive Director Dan Apfel and with Green Mountain College Committee Chair Daniel Riley. March 7, 2011 — Best Values for Our Dollar, Responsible investment on the New School Blog including information about REC and the New School ACIR's workshop 'Effective Responsible Investment Committees, 2011' February 7, 2011 — Bill would mandate more financial disclosure; Tufts calls status quo sufficient, Ellen Kan, the Tufts Daily. Features a quote by Caroline Incledon, leader of Students at Tufts for Investment Responsibility December 2010 — College Students Drive SRI Efforts, Their Mission: Making Big Endowments and Business Socially Responsible, by Jerilyn Klein Bier. November 11, 2010 — 7 Ways to Transform Banking in Yes! Magazine, discusses REC's work changing college and university banking and investment practices. Article by Fran Korten. April 21, 2010 — Vassar Relies on, Reviews Investments, Members of Campus Responsible Investment Committee, Vassar College March 10, 2010 — Move Our Money: Why Universities Should Join the Movement, Dan Apfel, REC Executive Director on HuffingtonPost.com March 3, 2010 — American University Students Want Community Investment Mary Schellentrager, REC Student Organizer on HuffingtonPost.com December 3, 2009 — Mt. Holyoke SRI Committee Seeks Support for Proposal November 2009 — Students Scrutitinize Columbia's Investments November 2009 — Brandeis University’s hard lesson in the real economy, Christopher R. Beha, Harper's Magazine October 28, 2009 — Washington University Students Pushing for Transparency in Endowment October 19, 2009 — Wesleyan Responsibly Invested Student Run Endowment Outperforms Market Summer 2009 — Shareholder Action Heats Up, Real Green, Green America's Summer Newsletter April 2, 2009 — Guide to Community Investment by Colleges and Universities Launched by Responsible Endowments Coalition March 31, 2009 — Historic Shareholder Agreement Reached With McDonald's on Pesticide Use Reduction, Reuters 2000 - Investment Strategy with a Social Conscience "Penn has adopted a lofty statement from Horace as its motto: "leges sine moribus vanae" -- "laws without morals are vain." We believe that as long as Pennÿturns a deaf ear to social responsibility in its investments, it will continue to trample the ideals of its own motto." |