Petition to add a new Maclean's university ranking category

Lately, Quebec universities have been overly criticized as to how they manage their funds.

According to The Gazette, a group of graduate students came to the point of putting up a petition to support their unusual demand.

The students are attempting to convince Maclean’s Magazine to include a new ranking for universities that would be based on ethical investments.

Maybe this would lead universities to reconsider the way that they invest their endowment funds and give them a better image, they say.

Many universities have holdings in very unsustainable and unethical industries like tobacco and fossil fuel.

Students believe that their divesting from these industries can better these universities’ images.

Some 5,000 students across the country had already signed the petition only a week after it had been made public on the Internet.

Maclean hasn’t yet been contacted by the students about the possible add-on to their annual ranking of Canadian universities.

STORY WRITTEN BY: Audrey Folliot
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