{"id":1579,"date":"1985-10-26T17:12:43","date_gmt":"1985-10-26T17:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/?p=1579"},"modified":"2018-10-31T13:54:19","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T17:54:19","slug":"committee-meets-with-trustees-to-discuss-smiths-south-african-shares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/1985\/10\/26\/committee-meets-with-trustees-to-discuss-smiths-south-african-shares\/","title":{"rendered":"Committee meets with trustees to discuss Smith\u2019s South African shares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">October 26, 1985<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Committee meets with trustees to discuss Smith\u2019s South African shares<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Ethical Investment Committee (EIC), the South African Task Force, and the Smith College Board of Trustees met to discuss Smith\u2019s holdings in South Africa and what should be done with those holdings. The EIC submitted a proposal for total divestment in two years, a proposal that was endorsed by 23 heads of Smith organizations. The trustees listened to the committee members, but said that they would wait to disclose their final decision until the next Board meeting in February.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The full Sophian article on the meeting can be found<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/1985.11.07.-South-Africa-feature-6-e1538922277186.jpg\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">here<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>[Last updated on October 31, 2018]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 26, 1985 Committee meets with trustees to discuss Smith\u2019s South African shares The Ethical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1118,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[63,26,116],"class_list":["post-1579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1980s","tag-63","tag-apartheid-in-south-africa","tag-ethical-investment-committee-eic","entry","grid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1579"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2394,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579\/revisions\/2394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}