“While the University will not divest from Israel,” it offered to create an expedited timeline for a review of new proposals from students by the school’s Advisory Committee for Socially Responsible Investing, which explores divestment, Shafik said.
“The University also offered to publish a process for students to access a list of Columbia’s direct investment holdings, and to increase the frequency of updates to that list of holdings,” she added.
lol. They didn’t even reveal their investments. They said, “Look over here, we made some new bureaucratic games for you to play.” Only true bureaucrat perverts would think that would appease anyone.
“Noisy distraction”
Yeah, that’s the point
I guess it’s not shocking that a private university cares more about Israeli money than their student body.
I’m more concerned about the public ones, which are not even trying to negotiate and putting snipers on nearby rooftops.
Did the administration they try offering a 6 week temporary boycott in exchange for all the protestors going to jail forever?
I hear if someone rejects that amazing offer they are literally the Nazis.
Excuse me, Columbia, but you’re not getting the message.
Israel will be starved of USA funding once the boomers are gone. The kids see what’s going on.
I wish that was true, but there are plenty of young people who feel the same way.
Yeah, that attitude is how you find yourself not voting for Hillary because “Trump can’t possibly win.”
One their enrollment and current student participation drops off a cliff, this will change. Lol negotiations have stalled? The protesters only want one thing!
I’m afraid that this is one of the places where you go to get the really super special diploma that says that you are specialler. The average person there has a rich daddy writing checks for tuition. You go there for the pedigree, not the education (though one presumes that the education is at a high level).
With luck, the next generation will get it just a little better.
Which then begs the question: If everyone’s rich daddies are paying tuition, why quibble about the divestment?
The economics of universities is such that tuition is only the tiniest part of all funding, typically less than 10%. The majority will come from grants, the state (if a public university), and donations. Students only contribute the tiniest amount of total costs.
Columbus is being so, so brave here. Something so trivial as divesting from Isreali industries in the middle of a genocide is the hill they’ll die on… so brave…
It’s because they know that their donors will dry up if they don’t keep on with the support. This is all about keeping very wealthy people happy at any cost.
