Institutional neutrality lets colleges foster a marketplace of ideas

Institutional neutrality lets colleges foster a marketplace of ideas

We should cultivate “brave spaces,” where students are instructed in how to think, not what to think, by engaging in all the real-world complexity of divergent ideas and messy discourse.

Queen’s University Trustees Reject Divestment Efforts Emphasizing the Importance of Institutional Neutrality - Michael Geist

The Queen’s University Board of Trustees last week rejected efforts to require divestment of the university’s endowment and investment funds from companies conducting business with or in the State of Israel and declined to implement a negative screening process for future investments. The decision, which adopted a review committee’s assessment, stands as one of the more detailed analysis of the issue at a Canadian university. Some universities h…

Queen’s University Trustees Reject Divestment Efforts Emphasizing the Importance of Institutional Neutrality

The Queen’s University Board of Trustees last week rejected efforts to require divestment of the university’s endowment and investment funds from companies conducting business with or in the State of Israel and declined to implement a negative screening process for future investments. The decision, which adopted a review committee’s assessment, stands as one of the more detailed analysis of the issue at a Canadian university. Some universities h…