Mount Holyoke College. Board of Trustees. Proxy Committee

The Proxy Committee was established in 1974 as a sub-committee of the Board of Trustees Finance Committee. The purpose of the committee was to monitor the investments of Mount Holyoke College and inform the Finance Committee of actions by corporations in which the College was a share holder that did not comply with socially responsible practices. Much of the focus of the committee's work through the mid-1980s concerned the question of whether the College should divest itself of investments in companies doing business in South Africa or with the South African government, which the Board of Trustees voted to do in November, 1985 to protest that country's apartheid system. Other issues considered by the committee include corporate policies affecting the health of workers and the environment.

From the guide to the Proxy Committee Records RG 3. 3. 15., 1973-1996, (Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections)