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Endowment Funds Are Not Going to Disclose and Divest

On today’s Big Take podcast, we look into the unrest at college campuses across the US.

Pro-Palestinian signage at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, US, on Tuesday, April 23, 2024. Campuses across the US have been grappling with pro-Palestinian protests and counter demonstrations since the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas.Photographer: Joe Buglewicz/Bloomberg

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By Sarah Holder, Thomas Lu, Alexander Sugiura, Jessica Beck, and Julia Press

April 27, 2024 at 1:10 AM UTC

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Protestors at universities across the country have been demanding that their institutions divest from companies that are tied to Israel or the war in Gaza, a demand universities have long rejected as antisemitic.

On today’s Big Take podcast, Sarah Holder talks to Bloomberg higher education reporter Janet Lorin and California reporter Eliyahu Kamisher about what’s really inside endowment funds and why universities are unlikely to yield to the calls of disclose and divest.