San Francisco State University will stop investing its endowment in coal and tar sands companies, joining a growing list of universities that are avoiding investments in fossil fuels, the school said.
Asset & Investments
6/12/2013
6/5/2013
Recent years have not been kind to higher education balance sheets: budgetary shortfalls have significantly reduced state appropriations, and school endowments have suffered in response to a sustained economic downturn.
5/3/2013
With the disruptive force and explosive growth of MOOCs, online courses could become more like televised sports and applied research, with a serious emphasis on who owns—and who should profit from—the content. Here are four discussion-opening questions about intellectual property rights today.
4/18/2013
The budget committee recommended that the athletic department alone should pay the fee, and not the entire university, as the university's trustees have decided.
4/11/2013
After Gov. Jay Nixon called for increased performance-based funding for higher education in his State of the State address this January, a funding model doing just that will finally reach the Senate floor for debate.
4/11/2013
Earlier this week, in another victory for the growing movement pushing colleges and universities to divest from companies profiting from fossil fuels, a Brown University oversight committee voted to recommend that the university divest from the country’s 15 largest coal companies.
12/11/2012
In what will be the largest donation it has ever received, the University of the Fraser Valley (British Columbia, Canada) will take ownership in early 2013 of the former BMO Bank of Montreal branch building at historic Five Corners in downtown Chilliwack. The university will renovate and refurbish the facility to create UFV Plaza, a downtown education centre with a focus on programming related to business development and training.
11/11/2012
College officials in New Jersey are making quick work of deciding how they hope to spend their portion of a $750 million higher education bond approved by voters on Election Day.
11/9/2012
From sources of funding to student engagement models, from the use of mobile technology to social media, multiple disruptive forces create surprises for administrators, frustrations for academics and bewilderment for students. Uncertainty threatens to incapacitate institutions as they choose for change to be thrust upon them, or attempt to avoid or ignore the strategic importance of the changes taking place around them.
11/8/2012
More than eight in 10 administrators surveyed—mainly controllers/budget officers and CFOs—say they’re very or somewhat concerned about their institutions’ ability to fund future capital investments.
10/15/2012
Finding funding for new technology investments in higher education can often seem overwhelming and stressful given the current economic environment. However, there are strategies available to support new technological initiatives. Administrators just need to do their homework and remain persistent to secure the funding needed to deploy these essential advancements.
