Jonathan Morris

Jonathan R. Morris is a doctoral student in the School for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan, an organizer with the Climate Action Movement, and a former organizer with DivestInvest at U-M.

Angell Hall

How persistent student organizing forced one of the largest public universities to divest from fossil fuels

Last month, the University of Michigan became the latest to accept the obvious — that investing in the destruction of society is fundamentally counter to the mission of higher education.

April 9, 2021