For Ari Huffman, the case for divesting from Israel is clear-cut — at least morally. The UC Merced student doesn’t understand exactly how university endowments work. But as Israel continues its relentless bombardment of Gaza, she knows she doesn’t want her tuition fees funding a war that has killed more than 35,000 Palestinians. “I don’t want to be complicit,” she said after the UC board of regents wrapped up a three-day meeting with student activists on her campus.
” The vast majority of universities hire third-party external investment companies to manage their endowments and give them broad mandates to make decisions, said Kevin Maloney, a professor of finance at Bryant University.
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