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WASHINGTON D.C. — At this morning’s graduation ceremonies for American University’s School of Public Affairs Lisa Jackson, the commencement speaker and former head of the Environmental Protection Agency commended American students for their hard work on their fossil fuel divestment campaign, “I salute this school and it’s students for facing head on the issue of investments in fossil fuels and what that means to your individual futures."

This has been a huge week of victories for divestment campaigns across the nation!  Students are turning up the heat and campaigns are reaching a tipping point as the semester builds toward Board of Trustee meetings in May.  They're showing their trustees the powerful bredth and depth of student, faculty, and alumni support for divestment.

Every day our movement has seen new victories as student governments and student bodies nationwide pass resolutions and referendums with overwhelming and at times unanimous support of divestment.  As our friends at Responsible Endowments Coalition say - Our Endowment, Our Responsibility, Our POWER!