The big push

Today's Daily article, "Groups petition to expand ACSR," is covering STIR's campus-wide push to raise awareness about making our ACSR bigger and better - with the help of the first unanimous TCU Senate resolution in two years.

STIR, a new student group that has formed to push for increased endowment transparency, and the Senate will officially present this argument to the administration today in a packet of information. It will include a STIR petition with 190 signatures and a resolution that the Senate passed on Sunday.

The Senate’s resolution follows up on a similar one that the body approved last spring, but to little avail.

“The TCU Senate urges the Board of Trustees and the Officers of Tufts University to allow the ACSR to undertake broader activities towards shareholder engagement, such as corporate dialogue, filing shareholder resolutions and increasing transparency in a way that will both protect the security of the endowment and permit greater community engagement,” Sunday’s resolution, which garnered unanimous support, read.

“I think that STIR is advocating for a really important cause on campus, and we’re going to help them as much as we can,” TCU President Duncan Pickard said.