New School (New York, N.Y.). Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility (2009-)
Dates
- Existence: 2009-
- Usage: 2009-
Biography
The Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility (ACIR) of The New School was established in 2009 by The New School Board of Trustees in response to the student occupation of The New School campus building at 65 Fifth Avenue, a week-long protest event in the Fall of 2008 which was centered in part on The New School’s investment in the defense industry.
The mission of the ACIR is:
to develop strategies for incorporating consideration of social, environmental, and corporate governance (collectively "ESG") issues into the management of The New School's investments. Issues under consideration include but are not limited to: human rights, labor standards, environmental sustainability, equity, diversity, discrimination, and corporate governance and disclosure. Authorized by the university Board of Trustees’ policy and procedures on Investment Responsibility, the ACIR presents recommendations on ESG issues that arise in the management of the university's endowment to the Investment Committee of the Board of Trustees.
The Committee is constituted of two faculty members, two student members, two staff members, and two university trustees, and members vote on New School investment recommendations. As of 2022, the Committee was chaired by Charles H. Allison, Jr., associate professor of professional practice at the Milano School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy at The New School for Public Engagement.
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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Chris Crews New School student activism collection
This collection documenting student activism at The New School and in New York City was compiled and created by Chris G. Crews, political scientist, activist, and New School graduate student between 2008 and 2019. The collection consists of video recordings and photographs of protests, town halls, meetings, workshops, and conferences, as well as documentation of various student-led, grassroot, and activist actions at The New School, and documents associated with Crews's work on various New School committees and initiatives. Also includes several of Crews’s writings on student activism.
New School Administration websites
The New School Administration websites collection consists of web-based content created by the Staff Senate, Parsons Faculty Council, Provosts Office, and other administrative offices at the University. Web materials are captured on an ongoing basis using the Internet Archive's Archive-It software, Conifer, and Browsertrix.
Due to the techniques and tools of web harvesting, and the evolving nature of the Internet, some websites have been crawled more comprehensively than others and are represented more faithfully than others.