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farmlandgrab.org | University of Iowa faculty rebuke farmland investors for fueling land grabs and corporate takeover of agriculture


University of Iowa faculty rebuke farmland investors for fueling land grabs and corporate takeover of agriculture
 
IOWA CITY, IOWA – On Tuesday, April 27, the University of Iowa Faculty Senate voted 42 to 7 to pass a resolution calling on the university to hold the financial services provider TIAA accountable for its investments in global farmland. Worth almost $8 billion, TIAA’s farmland investments have been linked to land grabbing and deforestation in Brazil and to corporate concentration, environmental destruction by monocrop industrial agriculture, and factory farming in the United States.
 
The Faculty Senate cast a resounding vote for the resolution even after the CEO and Director of Sustainability from TIAA’s farmland subsidiary, Westchester, gave virtual presentations to the Executive Council of the Faculty Senate. Faculty cited concerns that their retirement funds are being used to fund agricultural practices that are contributing to human rights ....

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Professors: University of Iowa dean wrong to apologize to lawmakers


Katherine H. Tachau, Edward Wasserman and Ann Rhodes
Guest Columnists
The right of the people to express opinions free from government interference is protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution. So it was disappointing to see the right of free speech weaponized in a recent hearing held by the Iowa House Government Oversight Committee. (“‘Unsafe just because they disagree’: University of Iowa dean apologizes for infringing on rights of conservatives on campus,” Feb. 3).
In that hearing, Dean David Johnsen of the University of Iowa s College of Dentistry apologized to the committee for his actions last fall when he and other faculty circulated a memo to the college deploring an Executive Order issued by then-President Donald Trump. The order prohibited recipients of federal funding from offering certain kinds of training on diversity and white privilege, and teachers at recipient institutions from “endorsing” ideas that the government defined as ....

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