“Academic endowments are entering a new normal after the richest school in the worldfollowed the leadof other colleges and universities to divest from fossil fuels.

Now a cascade of similar announcements has followed, withBoston University, theUniversity of Minnesotaand the $8 billionMacArthur Foundationpulling the plug on fossil fuels.”

[COMMENTARY]Most of their faculty is in some way connected academically to some facet of global warming and/or climate change. Hence, it’s unsurprising that these institutions give up on fossil fuel investments.
Harvard cracks on fossil fuels and a dam breaks, by Jordan Wolman, September 28, 2021, Politico, USA.