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On Jan. 30, 2013, I held the first meeting for DukeOpen, a student group advocating endowment transparency and investment responsibility. Only one other person showed up. Nine months later, the University acceded to almost all our requests and announced the broadest reforms to our endowment in the past decade. How did we make it happen, and what does this mean for student activism at Duke?
As we write this column, our University prepares to honor 50 years of black undergraduate presence at tomorrow’s Founder’s Day Convocation. On the same day, President Brodhead plans to take a proposal for investment responsibility to the Board of Trustees that leaves out transparency. While these events appear unrelated, turning to the history of investment responsibility illuminates important connections.
