divestment

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  5/10/2023
  

  Coke Money and the Public Relations of Higher Ed Divestment from Apartheid

  by Amanda Joyce Hall

  At Emory Univerity in the 1980s the close relationship between Coca Cola and the administration allowed Coke to leverage its financial support of the university to press the administration to suppress and coopt student movements for divestment from Apartheid South Africa. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  10/12/2022
  

  Will Other Elite Unis Follow Princeton's Lead in Rejecting Fossil Fuel Money?

  by Ilana Cohen and Michael E. Mann

  A student movement is realizing its first successes in convincing university administrators to refuse donations that, activists argue, inevitably compromise the integrity of university research on climate change. 

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• 2-24-14
  

  In Defense of the American Studies Association

  by Alan Wald

  The ASA's support of the BDS movement seeks to enhance the academic freedom of Palestinians.

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• SOURCE: Times Higher Education
  1-16-14
  

  Demonization and Hatred

  by Howard P. Segal

  The ASA's continued boneheaded decision to support BDS.

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• SOURCE: Sandbox (Blog)
  1-8-14
  

  The ASA's Next Boycott!

  by Martin Kramer

  An only slightly tongue-in-cheek parody of the ASA.

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• 1-13-14
  

  The American Studies Association Needs to Hit Rewind/Erase

  by Thomas Doherty

  The horrible decision by the ASA to endorse an academic boycott of Israel is destroying the credibility not just of the organization, but the credibility of American studies itself.

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• SOURCE: The American Interest
  12-20-13
  

  Hypocrisy, Thy Name Is ASA

  by Alan Luxenberg

  The vote by the 5,000-member American Studies Association to support the academic boycott of Israel, reportedly by a 2-1 margin, has evoked many responses, but none so far has identified the irony at the core of the matter.