Pro-Palestinian students want universities to stop investing in companies with ties to Israel – WBEZ (Chicago)

At the center of the debate are billions of dollars given by donors to sustain universities in the long term. The endowment of the University of Illinois System, which includes UIC and is a public institution, was valued at $2.7 billion. Robert Kelchen, a higher education researcher at the University of Tennessee, said the dilemma points to a larger question: “Is the duty of the endowment to grow as much as possible? Or is it to do good for the public? And those two can sometimes be in tension with each other.”