WALL STREET JOURNAL Students Pressure Endowments in Effort to Curb Climate Change | The New York Times reports: "In recent weeks, college students on dozens of campuses have demanded that university endowment funds rid themselves of coal, oil and gas stocks.
Other motivating factors identified included encouragement and advice from family and senior international medical students, pressure to perform academically due to high tuition fees, regular meetings with peers (other international medical students) to read, cook, practise OSCEs and share experiences.
Over the past year, misgivings about his increasingly capricious ways and limited ability to grapple with Indonesia's formidable problems have steadily sapped the will of the reformasi movement the collection of students, pressure-groups and disgusted middle-class people who helped to bring down Suharto in 1998 and to install the first democratic government in four decades last October.
At the time, college students pressured school administrators to support better treatment for the workers who made apparel with university logos; At Yale, Georgetown, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, among others, students held rallies and sit-ins.
As Ms. Anderson reports, local officials and school administrators alike have agreed that the standardized testing system is flawed, and that students, pressured by extreme competition in college admissions, are increasingly tempted to cheat.
In Norfolk, Va., an independent panel detailed in March how a principal — whose job evaluations had faulted the poor test results of special education students — pressured teachers to use an overhead projector to show those students answers for state reading assessments, according to The Virginian-Pilot, citing a leaked copy of the report.
Two years ago I traveled across the country to research The Overachievers, a book about high school and college students pressured to succeed.
She said she would continue to protest, citing a previous government's bow to student pressure in 2006 to abandon a law on youth unemployment.
Ian Leggett, director of student pressure group People & Planet, added: "If the Treasury continues to regard climate change as irrelevant when it comes to RBS's business, the taxpayer will be expected to pick up the tab again while the bankers walk away with a bonus for causing a climate catastrophe".
UC system divests $30 million in prison holdings amid student pressure.
In Bucaramanga, at UIS, a professor alleged to be a repeat offender is being investigated, and student pressure, finally, is being felt.
