U of T Faculty for Divestment | Moving Our Endowment Beyond Fossil Fuels

The University of Toronto Faculty is increasingly coming out in favour of fossil fuel divestment.

The campaign has been widely endorsed by organizations on campus, and prominent individuals associated with the university.

More than 220 faculty members and librarians have signed the open letter so far.

The President’s Ad Hoc Advisory Committee on Divestment from Fossil Fuels has advised President Gertler to divest!

U of T Faculty Members: Sign the Open Letter

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We, the undersigned University of Toronto faculty members, call upon U of T to divest from direct stock holdings in the world's 200 fossil fuel companies with the largest reserves of coal, oil, and gas within the next five years.

To prevent widespread ecological and ice-sheet collapse we must limit global warming to 2 ˚C.

Scientific consensus indicates that to stay within this 2 ˚C margin, we must cap carbon dioxide emissions at 565 gigatons. Because companies currently own fossil fuel holdings sufficient to produce 2,795 gigatons of carbon dioxide, the risk is clear. For companies to exploit these holdings - as they are bound to by their current business model - would mean raising atmospheric carbon dioxide to very dangerous levels.

The alternative - for U of T to remain invested in fossil fuel companies - presents us with a paradox.

If a university seeks to educate extraordinary youth so they achieve the brightest possible future, what does it mean for that university to simultaneously invest in the destruction of that future?

When it comes to the future our students will live to see, there is a scientifically documented, morally clear, technologically innovative right thing to do: divest from fossil fuels and reinvest in a sustainable future.

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215 signatures

Signatories
215	Marcin Pęski	Professor, Dept. of Economics
214	Felan Parker	Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Book & Media Studies, St. Michael's College
213	Nicole Klenk	Assistant Professor, Physical and Environmental Science and Political Science
212	Jennifer Harris	Associate Professor, Study of Religion
211	Stephen Scharper	Associate Professor, School of the Environment
210	Patricia McKee	Associate Professor Emeritus, Dept of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy
209	Sarah Finkelstein	Associate Professor, Department of Earth Sciences
208	Helen Rodd	Professor, Dept. of Ecology and Evol. Biology
207	Debra Cameron (Mosnyk)	Assistant Professor, Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy
206	Jane Forbes	Instructor, CTL, OISE
205	Ashley Waggoner Denton	Lecturer, Department of Psychology
204	RENA HELMS-PARK	CENTRE FOR FRENCH AND LINGUISTICS, UTSC
203	Courtney Jung	Professor, Political Science
202	Angelica Fenner	Associate Professor, German & Cinema Studies
201	Rebecca Kingston	Professor, Political Science
200	Dr. Faisal Moola	Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Forestry, University of Toronto
199	Rhona Anderson	Acting Director of Clinical Education, Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy
198	Barry Trentham	Assistant Professor, Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy
197	Lena Mortensen	Assistant Professor, Anthropology (UTSC)
196	Dina Georgis	Associate Professor, Women and Gender Studies Institute
195	Sara Hughes	Assistant Professor, Political Science
194	Sherida Ryan	Lecturer, Adult Education and Community Development
193	Naisargi Dave	Associate Professor, Anthropology
192	Lisa Forman	Assistant professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
191	Bhavani Raman	Associate Professor, Department of History
190	Susannah Bunce	Assistant Professor, Geography and Planning
189	Marcelo Vieta	Assistant Professor, Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education, OISE
188	Bonnie Burstow	Assoc prof LHAE OISE
187	Walter Wodchis	Associate Professor, Institute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation
186	Jamie Magnusson	Professor, Dept Leadership, Higher, and Adult Education
185	Nestor E. Rodriguez	Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
184	Stephen Morris	Professor, Dept. of Physics
183	Karen Ing	Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, School of the Environment
182	Hilary Cunningham	Associate Professor, Anthropology
181	Michael Ekers	Assistant Professor, Human Geography
180	Jane Liu	Assistant Professor, Geography and Planning
179	Steven Farber	Assistant Professor, Human Geography, UTSC
178	Deborah Cowen	Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Planning
177	Wendy Wong	Associate Professor, Political Science
176	Paul Demers	Professor (status), Dalla Lana School of Public Health
175	Jörg Bollmann	Associate Professor, Department of Earth Sciences
174	Karen Morrison	Sessional Lecturer, School of the Environment
173	Kate Neville	Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and School of the Environment
172	Solomon Benatar	Adjunct Professor DLSPH
171	David Fisman	Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
170	Cornelia Baines	Professor Emerita, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
169	Beth Savan	Retired Senior Lecturer, School of Environment
168	Jeff Newman	Librarian, New College
167	Ali Abdel-Khalig	Senior Lecturer, Near and Middle Eastern Studies
166	M Cristina Cuervo	Associate Professor, Linguistics
165	Leslie Stewart Rose	Senior Lecturer, OISE
164	Krista Maxwell	Assistant Professor, Anthropology
163	Harriet Sonne de Torrens	Academic Librarian, UTM Library and Dept. of Visual Studies, UTM
162	Tania Li	Professor and Canada Research Chair, Department of Anthropology
161	Francis Cody	Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology and Asian Institute
160	Nhung Tran	Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair
159	Agi Lukacs	Sr. Lecturer, Transitional Year Programme (retired)
158	Michael O'Connor	Senior Lecturer, St Michael's College
157	Karen Wishart	Reference Librarian, Emmanuel College Library, Victoria University
156	Sarah Wakefield	Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Program in Planning
155	Victor Ostapchuk	Associate Professor, Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations
154	Miguel Torrens	Librarian, University of Toronto Libraries
153	Kevin Coleman	Assistant Professor of History
152	Farshid Baghai	Lecturer, Department of Philosophy UTM
151	Charles Dyer	Professor, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Physics
150	Lori Stahlbrand	Lecturer, New College
149	Sandy M Smith	Professor, Faculty of Forestry
148	David Conklin	Adjunct Faculty
147	Miriam Diamond	Professor, Department of Earth Sciences
146	Ulrich Tepass	Professor, Cell and Systems Biology
145	Dorothea Godt	Associate Professor, Department of Cell and Systems Biology
144	Brian Walsh	Adjunct Professor of Theology, Trinity and Wycliffe Colleges
143	Denise Reaume	Professor, Faculty of Law
142	Emily Gilbert	Associate Professor, Canadian Studies and Geography
141	David Sider	Distance Education Instructor and Sessional Lecturer, School of the Environment
140	Kailey Stewart	Sessional lecturer, Departmen of Geography and Planning
139	Bonnie Fox	Professor, Sociology Department
138	Ulrich Wortmann	Assoc. Prof. Earth Sciences
137	Olga Pugliese	professor emeritus, Victoria College & Italian Studies
136	Tenley Conway	Associate Professor, Geography
135	Sonja Nikkila	Lecturer, English Literature UTSC
134	Stefan Renckens	Assistant Professor, Political Science
133	Andrew Westoll	Lecturer, Creative Writing, Department of English
132	Kajri Jain	Associate Professor, Visual Studies/Art History
131	Steven Bush	Senior Lecturer (retired), The Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies
130	Douglas Macdonald	Senior Lecturer, School of the Environment
129	Michael Lambek	Professor, Anthropology
128	Mary Jane Ashley	Professor Emerita, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
127	June Larkin	Equity Studies, New College
126	Susan Sim	Lecturer, Faculty of Information
125	Blake Richards	Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences UTSC
124	Benjamin Gilbert	Assistant Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
123	Nicholas C. Collins	Assoc. Prof. of Biology, UT Mississauga
122	Caroline Fusco	Associate Professor, Faculty of Kinesiology & Physical Education
121	Alan Ackerman	Professor, Department of English
120	Leesa Wheelahan	Associate Professor, Leadership, Higher and Adult Education, OISE
119	Simon Darnell	Assistant Professor, Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education
118	Rachael Cayley	Senior Lecturer, School of Graduate Studies
117	Josée Johnston	Associate Professor, Sociology
116	S. Ryan Isakson	Assistant Professor of International Development Studies and Geography
115	Suzanne Cadarette	Associate Professor, Pharmacy
114	Andrea Most	Professor, Department of English
113	Jay Malcolm	Professor, Forestry
112	Paul Cohen	Associate Professor of History
111	Barbara Fischer	Senior Lecturer, John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design
110	Jack Miller	Professor, Curriculum, Teaching and Learning
109	Amanda Peet	Associate Professor, Physics
108	Mark Solovey	Assistant Professor, IHPST
107	Sallie Lyons	instructor: movement for the actor, centre for drama, theatre and performance studies
106	William Logan	Professor, Paediatrics
105	Edward Barbeau	Professor Emeritus, Mathematics
104	Alana Boland	Associate Professor, Geography
103	Patrick Keilty	Assistant Professor, Faculty of Information
102	Alissa North	Associate Professor and Director, Master of Landscape Architecture Program
101	Eleanor Cook	Professor Emerita, Dept. of English
100	Colleen Shantz	Associate Professor, cross-appointed to the Department for the Study of Religion
99	Christopher Honey	Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
98	Christopher Matzner	Assistant professor, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
97	Alison Syme	Associate Professor, Visual Studies
96	Jan Angus	Associate Professor, Nursing
95	Igor Lehnherr	Assistant Professor, Geography-UTM
94	Ken Derry	Lecturer, Historical Studies
93	Steve Easterbrook	Professor, Department of Computer Science
92	Lisa Jeffrey	Professor, Computer and Mathematical Sciences, UTSC
91	Dennis O'Hara	Associate Professor, Faculty of Theology, University of St. Michael's College
90	Joseph Whitney	Professor Emeritus, Department of Geography and Planning
89	Margaret Procter	Senior Lecturer and University of Toronto Coordinator, Writing Support (retired)
88	Christoph Richter	Lecturer, Biology (UTM)
87	Katie Kilroy-Marac	Assistant Professor of Anthropology
86	Jumi Shin	Associate Professor, Chemistry
85	David Brennan	Associate Professor, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work
84	Natalie Rothman	Associate Professor, Department of Historical and Cultural Studies/Graduate Department of History
83	Reid Locklin	Associate Professor, SMC
82	Lucy Gan	Librarian, Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library
81	Gustavo Indart	Senior Lecturer - Economics
80	Andrea Williams	Lecturer, Faculty of Arts & Science
79	David Hlynsky	Senior Lecturer Arts, Media Culture, UTSC
78	Stephen Rockel	Associate Professor, Historical and Cultural Studies (UTSC)
77	Henry Regier	Professor emeritus, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, School of the Environment
76	Matthew Farish	Associate Professor, Geography
75	Peter Abrams	Professor Emeritus, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
74	David Jenkins	University professor, dept nutr Sci, faculty of medicine
73	meyer brownstone	Prof. Emeritus, Political Science
72	Dan Dolderman	Senior Lecturer; Dept. of Psychology
71	Ju Hui Judy Han	Assistant Professor, Geography
70	Peter Kotanen	Associate Professor, Biology (UTM)
69	Harriet Friedmann	Munk School of Global Affairs
68	Pascal Tyrrell	Assistant Professor, Medical Imaging
67	Daniel Bender	CANADA RESEARCH CHAIR AND PROFESSOR; HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL STUDIES AND GRADUATE DEPT. OF HISTORY
66	Naomi Morgenstern	Associate Professor, Department of English
65	Jayeeta Sharma	Associate Professor; Historical and Cultural Studies; Graduate Departments, History, Religion, Asian Institute, Diaspora and Transnational Studies
64	Nicholas Sammond	Associate Professor, Cinema Studies Institute
63	Marten van Kerkwijk	Professor, Astronomy & Astrophysics
62	Jack Quarter	professor, Leadership, Higher and Adult Education
61	Robert Lewis	Professor, Geography
60	Blair Kuntz	Librarian, Materials Processing, Robarts Library
59	Theo Hofmann	Professor Emeritus Department of Biochemistry Faculty of Medicine
58	Mark Cheetham	Professor, History of Art
57	Arsalan Kahnemuyipour	Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Language Studies, UTM
56	Corinne Denoyelle	Associate Professor, French
55	Lawrin Armstrong
54	William Magee	Associate Professor, Sociology
53	Paul Read	Assoc. Prof. Faculty of Music
52	Irving Rootman	Professor, Public Health Sciences (retired)
51	Theresa Enright	Assistant Professor, Political Science
50	Michelle Murphy	Professor, History
49	Robert Irish	Senior Lecturer, Engineering Communication
48	Stephanie Nixon	Associate Professor, Department of Physical Therapy
47	Hanno Rein	Assistant Professor, DPES
46	Shahrzad Mojab
45	Geoff MacDonald	Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
44	Isabelle Cochelin	Associate Professor, Dept of History and Centre for Medieval Studies
43	Barbara Murck	Senior Lecturer, UTM Department of Geography and Programs in Environment
42	D. Alissa Trotz	Associate Professor, Caribbean Studies/ Women and Gender Studies
41	Gerold Schmitt-Ulms	Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology
40	John Kloppenborg	Professor, Dept for the Study of Religion
39	Denis Walsh	Professor (Canada Research Chair) Philosophy and IHPST
38	Fiona Miller	Associate Professor, Institute of Health Policy, Management & Evaluation
37	Nikolai Krementsov	Professor IHPST
36	John Noyes	Professor, Germanic Languages and Literatures
35	Denise Gastaldo	associate professor, faculty of nursing
34	Melanie Newton	Associate Professor of History
33	John Valleau	Professor Emeritus, Department of Chemistry
32	Donald C Cole	Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
31	Anne-Emanuelle Birn	Professor, Critical Development Studies, UTSC & Dalla Lana School of Public Health
30	Victor Li	Associate Professor, Department of English
29	Valentina napolitano	associate professor, anthropology
28	Linda Kohn	Professor, UTM Biology, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cell and Systems Biology
27	Judith Taylor	Associate Professor, Sociology & Women and Gender Studies Institute
26	ernie lightman	professor emeritus, fac of social work
25	Bernd Baldus	Professor emeritus
24	Rinaldo Walcott	Associate Professir, WGSI and SJE OISE
23	David Livingstone	Professor Emeritus, Department of Social Justice, OISE
22	Andrew Clement	Professor, Faculty of Information
21	Richard Roman	Associate Professor Emeritus, Sociology Department
20	Paul Downes	Assoc. Prof. Dept. Of English
19	Germaine Warkentin	Professor Emeritus of English
18	Alejandro Paz	Assistant Professor, Anthropology
17	Rebecca Comay	Professor, Philosophy
16	Jason Hackworth	Professor, Geography
15	Mary Nyquist	Professor, English and Comparative Literature
14	Rosa Sarabia	Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
13	Andre Sorensen	Full Professor, Chair of the Department of Human Geography, UTSC
12	David Roberts	Lecturer, Urban Studies Department
11	Kenneth MacDonald	Assoc. Professor, Geography
10	Susan Ruddick	Professor, Geography
9	Dylan Clark	Director of Contemporary Asian Studies program
8	Paul Hamel	Professor, Faculty of Medicine
7	Danny Harvey	Professor, Department of Geography and School of the Environment
6	Andrea Olive	Assistant Professor, Political Science and Geography
5	Margrit Eichler	Professor Emerita, OISE/UT
4	Chandler Davis	Professor (Emeritus), Department of Mathematics
3	Peter Russell	University Professor Emeritus
2	Frank Cunningham	Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Political Science
1	Scott Prudham	Professor, Department of Geography and School of the Environment