Several environmental-focused University of Wisconsin student organizations joined other Big Ten schools in creating a climate coalition in honor of Earth Day last Friday. <span class="excerpt-more">.</span>
Divest NU, a coalition of students calling for university-wide removal of investments in fossil fuels, is back with new demands for the University of Nebraska.
Joined together near the Broyhill Fountain, students urged University of Nebraska administrators to commit to full divestment.
Aila Ganic and Madison Whitney, Sustain UNLâs president and vice president, respectively, and Divest NU organizers, presented three demands to the university.
These include a call on the NU Board of Regents to commit to full divestment of its controlled funds by its August meeting, pass a resolution calling on the NU Foundation to fully divest by the end of the year and create a university-wide working group â that would include students â dedicated to the implementation of divestment and reinvestment in clean energy.
Iâm Brittni McGuire, a senior at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln writing on behalf of Divest NU, a coalition advocating for the University of Nebraska to divest from fossil fuels. This is our mandate for NU to announce its commitment to divest by the next Board of Regents meeting on April 9, 2021.Â
As students, we come to the University of Nebraska to invest in our future. In exchange for tuition, the university invests countless resources to prepare us to positively impact the world after graduation. Itâs unsettling that our investment is being counteracted by the universityâs investment in fossil fuels â an industry destroying the lives of people and the planet, making our future uncertain.Â