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“If the Corporation were to divest, it would signal to our students and scholars that there are ‘approved’ points of view to which members of the community are expected to conform,” University Chancellor Brian Moynihan and President Christina Paxson said in a joint statement. “This would be wholly inconsistent with the principles of academic freedom and free inquiry, and would undermine our mission of serving the community, the nation and the world.
Last spring, the university committed to an October vote by its governing board on a divestment proposal, after an advisory committee weighed in on the issue. In exchange,A year into the Israel-Hamas war, students say a chill on free speech has reached college classrooms Ahead of the vote, Niyanta Nepal, the student body president who was voted in on a pro-divestment platform, were spending their energy on applying pressure for a vote in favor of divestment. They rallied fellow students to attend a series of forums and encouraged incoming students to join the movement.