Dear Editor, We are excited to celebrate the divestment of Carleton’s endowment from direct fossil fuel investments and fossil fuel-oriented mutual funds. This decision is thanks to the hard work of many students, alumni, faculty and staff over the past eight years. Divest Carleton is both elated and left with…
The Students of Divest Carleton
Divest Carleton has been demanding that Carleton College divest its endowment from fossil fuels for the past eight years and from the military-industrial complex and private prisons since 2020. After years of negotiation with no commitment to act from the President of the College or the Board of Trustees, the…
Dear Carleton Community, This past week, more than 10,000 Gazans have been displaced from their homes, and at least 137 are confirmed to have died as Israel intensified bombing campaigns and threatened to launch an all-out ground invasion. Among the dead, at least 27 are children. Though the Israeli government…
Dear Mr. Weitz and Mr. Wender: We were recently heartened to learn that, as of September 30, 2019, Carleton no longer holds any direct public equity stocks in fossil fuel companies. This marks a significant change in Carleton’s portfolio. Five years ago, Carleton was directly invested in nine major fossil…
Dear Carleton Board of Trustees, We, the students of Divest Carleton, are writing to you to express our dissatisfaction with your response to the recommendation to divest from fossil fuels made in September by the Carleton Responsible Investment Committee (CRIC)*. First, let us acknowledge the steps Carleton has taken toward…