Using University Money for Economic Transformation Participants will learn the opportunities university capital offers for strategic economic transformation and find out what student activists across the nation have been doing to make those opportunities become reality. Presenters will address the role universities, as institutional investors, played in the economic crisis and established and emerging strategies for addressing this behavior. We’ll focus on case studies ranging from shareholder advocacy to financing the solidarity economy, all with a focus towards providing participants with the information they need to take action on their campus.
The Democratization of Higher Education: The Crisis and Beyond The last three years has seen dramatic shifts at colleges and universities across the United States. While a college degree becomes ever more valuable, it also becomes less affordable. In addition to tuition hikes and staff cuts, universities are failing to fulfill their commitments to students and society in many other ways, from managing their endowments in ways that promote problems in the financial markets to bringing credit cards on campus. Students across the country are demanding accountability in order to create more affordable and democratic universities.
Panelists from The Responsible Endowments Coalition (REC), North American Students of Cooperation (NASCO), and the United States Student Association (USSA) will share strategies for collective student action, practices for demanding responsible investments, and tools for creating student-owned cooperative housing, businesses and credit unions.
Usar el dinero de las universidades para la transformación económica Participants will learn the opportunities university capital offers for strategic economic transformation and find out what student activists across the nation have been doing to make those opportunities become reality. Presenters will address the role universities, as institutional investors, played in the economic crisis and established and emerging strategies for addressing this behavior. We’ll focus on case studies ranging from shareholder advocacy to financing the solidarity economy, all with a focus towards providing participants with the information they need to take action on their campus.
El activismo universitario y la crisis económica The last three years has seen dramatic shifts at colleges and universities across the United States. While a college degree becomes ever more valuable, it also becomes less affordable. In addition to tuition hikes and staff cuts, universities are failing to fulfill their commitments to students and society in many other ways, from managing their endowments in ways that promote problems in the financial markets to bringing credit cards on campus. Students across the country are demanding accountability in order to create more affordable and democratic universities.
Panelists from The Responsible Endowments Coalition (REC), North American Students of Cooperation (NASCO), and the United States Student Association (USSA) will share strategies for collective student action, practices for demanding responsible investments, and tools for creating student-owned cooperative housing, businesses and credit unions.
The Responsible Endowments Coalition (REC) works to build and unify the college and university-based responsible investment movement, both by educating and empowering a diverse network of individuals to act on their campuses, and by fostering a national network for collective action. We empower young people to defend human rights and the environment while making both corporations and universities accountable to global stakeholders. Our goal is to foster social and environmental change by making responsible investment common practice amongst colleges and universities, and to support the next generation of activists with a new and powerful toolkit.
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