EDUCATION - College students don’t want to be funded by fossil fuels

At over 300 colleges in the past year, reports The New York Times Dealbook, students have initiated campaigns to divest from companies involved in the fossil fuel business. Their schools' endowments, they argue, shouldn't profit from practices that are contributing to global warming.A few small schools, like Unity College in Maine, have already done as much. Harvard, in response to student pressure, hired a vice president of sustainable investing ...

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