Leading by Example
The list of Endowment Transparency Leaders is comprised of seven schools that earned "A" grades in this category. Below is a sample of eight very different institutions that all earned high marks. These summaries are based on data from each school’s profile page.
Dartmouth College’s Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility makes its annual report available to the college community and any interested outside party on the school’s website. Any Dartmouth community member can view a hard-copy listing of all publicly traded shares that the college directly owns by visiting the college’s investment office.
Michigan State University makes a list of its investment holdings available to the public on the Office of the Controller’s website. Proxy voting records are sent to individuals upon request.
Pennsylvania State University provides a list of all investment holdings each year, available to the university community and also to the public in the investment office. The Office of Investment Management would also make available proxy voting records upon request.
For the University of Illinois, the University of Texas, and the University of Wisconsin, open records law requires that proxy voting records and a list of endowment holdings be available to the public. Illinois and Texas send this information to individuals upon request, while Wisconsin makes it available via the web.
The University of Toronto makes its proxy voting records and a list of endowment holdings available to the public on the website of the university’s investment management subsidiary, the University of Toronto Asset Management Corporation.
Endowment holdings and proxy voting records at the University of Washington are available to faculty, staff, students, and the general public upon request as per open records law. The investment office typically meets with parties interested in the investment program to provide additional context and research support.