Important Takeaways:

• The university’s highest governing body, the Corporation of Brown University, says divesting “would signal that there are ‘approved’ points of views to which members of the community are expected to conform,” which would be “wholly inconsistent with the principles of academic freedom and free inquiry and would undermine our mission.”
• “Brown’s mission doesn’t encompass resolving or adjudicating global conflict.”
• Supporters of divestment ended their encampment last spring, in exchange for a promise that their call for divestment would get a vote from the Board this fall.
• Students on both sides of the issue had made their case last month to the Advisory Committee on University Resources Management, which on Sept. 30 voted 8-2, with 1 abstention, to recommend that the board not divest.
• The Brown decision has been watched closely around the nation, as it would have been the first Ivy League school to divest from businesses with ties to Israel.

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