The Advisory Committee on Investment Responsibility (ACIR) shall meet on a regular basis to consider issues referred by members of the Duke University community regarding specific investment responsibility concerns, to monitor trends and activities in investment responsibility, conduct research and provide analyses when requested by the President, and make recommendations to the President on any issues which may warrant attention.
The ACIR provides advice and recommendations about responsible investing, but it does not manage Duke’s Foundation or its investments in any way. The company that does is DUMAC. Viewers should review DUMAC’s website to familiarize themselves with how Duke’s investments are managed.
Issues
Sudan / Darfur
Board of Trustees Resolution on Darfur Case, February 2008
Darfur case 2007 – ACIR report with addenda, November 2007
Conflict Minerals
Duke Board of Trustees Resolution on Conflict Minerals, June 2012
ACIR – Conflict minerals – letter to the President, May 2012
ACIR Report on Conflict Minerals, May 2012
Full Report or Without Appendices
PSC memo to ACIR, January 2012
Student Proposal to PSC, January 2012
Fossil Fuels
Final ACIR Divestment Report to President Price, February 2024
Duke Climate Coalition Literature Review, January 2024
2022 Fossil Fuel Divestment Proposal ORIGINAL, December 2022
VEP Response to ACIR Documents 8.19.19, August 2019
FINAL.ACIR Report to Pres. Price 2019 05 16, May 2019
Duke Climate Coalition Memorandum to ACIR – fossil fuel divestment, March 2018
Advisory Committee Offers Strategies to Have University Investments Reflect Values on Fossil Fuels, January 2015
FINAL Report on Fossil Fuels, November 2014
Divest Duke – Memorandum to ACIR, October 2014
Divest Duke ACIR Proposal, October 2014
Endowment Transparency
ACIR Transparency Report to President Price, March 2024
Duke Amnesty International Transparency Request, January 2024
Investment Transparency Proposal, December 2022
Report-on-Endowment-Transparency, September 2015
Duke Open ACIR Proposal, 2013