The report says the Michigan State University (MSU) Trustees were well supplied with information about South Africa before they passed their March 31, 1978, resolution. This included materials from other universities, MSU students, the African Studies Center, faculty from the Anthropology and Sociology Departments, and faculty and students from the Southern Africa Liberation Committee (SALC), as well as materials opposing divestiture from Mrs. Carrigan-Strickland, a General Motors executive on the Board of Trustees. The report says the divestiture resolution was then sent to the University Committee on Academic Environment (UCAE), which considered the issue again. The report says the UCAE...
The report says the Michigan State University (MSU) Trustees were well supplied with information about South Africa before they passed their March 31, 1978, resolution. This included materials from other universities, MSU students, the African Studies Center, faculty from the Anthropology and Sociology Departments, and faculty and students from the Southern Africa Liberation Committee (SALC), as well as materials opposing divestiture from Mrs. Carrigan-Strickland, a General Motors executive on the Board of Trustees. The report says the divestiture resolution was then sent to the University Committee on Academic Environment (UCAE), which considered the issue again. The report says the UCAE report that was accepted by the Board of Trustees recommended that the Board notify corporations doing business in South Africa in which MSU held investments of their resolution. The UCAE also recommended that copies of the resolution be sent to the President and Secretary of State, Chairmen of the House and Senate Foreign Relations Committees, members of the Michigan Congressional delegation and the Michigan Legislature, the Government of South Africa, and the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. The divestiture resolution was debated and discussed at every meeting of the Trustees and its investment committee meeting for the last year; at the investment committee meetings supporters and opponents of divestiture were heard. Each time, divestiture was reaffirmed. The report mentions John Makatini, the African National Congress (ANC), withholding tax credits to U. S. corporations doing business in South Africa, and Associated Students of MSU (ASMSU). [Note: the date at the top right corner may have been added later; the text indicates that it was produced after that date.]
