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Broken promise: SIU's schools, departments lose autonomy over millions in key funds – The Daily Egyptian

SIU’s distance education funds, monies raised by individual schools and departments by putting their programs online, are once again at the center of a controversy, with some school leaders saying the administration is breaking a key promise after removing the much-needed funds from their coffers. Former Chancellor Rita Cheng had allocated the money to schools. ....

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farmlandgrab.org | University of Iowa faculty rebuke farmland investors for fueling land grabs and corporate takeover of agriculture

University of Iowa faculty rebuke farmland investors for fueling land grabs and corporate takeover of agriculture

IOWA CITY, IOWA – On Tuesday, April 27, the University of Iowa Faculty Senate voted 42 to 7 to pass a resolution calling on the university to hold the financial services provider TIAA accountable for its investments in global farmland. Worth almost $8 billion, TIAA’s farmland investments have been linked to land grabbing and deforestation in Brazil and to corporate concentration, environmental destruction by monocrop industrial agriculture, and factory farming in the United States.

The Faculty Senate cast a resounding vote for the resolution even after the CEO and Director of Sustainability from TIAA’s farmland subsidiary, Westchester, gave virtual presentations to the Executive Council of the Faculty Senate. Faculty cited concerns that their retirement funds are being used to fund agricultural practices that are contributing to human rights ....

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