At many colleges, victories have been slow to accumulate for campus activists who have pressured their institutions to ban certain investments from their endowments. There are hundreds of active campaigns that seek divestment from fossil-fuel companies, yet a much smaller number of colleges have actually pledged to follow through on those demands. But student activists say they scored an important victory last week, when Columbia University decided to divest from for-profit prison companies. Columbia’s decision demonstrates how the campus-divestment movement has grown to encompass more causes than just fossil fuels, including such issues as mass incarceration, guns, and international human rights.

June 30, 2015 ・ From Chronicle of Higher Education