Inventory of the UC Divestment from South Africa Collection AR-037
Vanessa Cardona-Ocegueda
University of California, Davis Library, University Archives
2024
1st Floor, Shields Library, University of California
100 North West Quad
Davis, CA
Telephone: (530) 752-1621
Fax Number: (530) 754-5758
speccoll@ucdavis.edu
Contributing Institution:
University of California, Davis Library, University Archives
Title: UC Divestment from South Africa Collection
source:
Smith, Wilson (1922-)
Identifier/Call Number: AR-037
Physical Description:
1 linear foot
Date (inclusive): 1977-1985
Abstract: Communications, newspaper clippings, publications, and press kits related to the University of California's divestment of
holdings in apartheid South Africa during the 1980s.
Physical Location: Researchers should contact Archives and Special Collections to request collections, as many are stored offsite.
Language of Material:
English
.
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
History
In 1985, the University of California Board of Regents established the University Advisory Committee for Investor Responsibility,
which consisted of faculty, staff, students, and alumni across the UC system. The committee aimed to study corporate citizenship
in companies included in the university's investment portfolio, with a specific emphasis on reviewing companies associated
with South Africa. At the time of the committee's establishment, the University of California system had over $2.4 billion
invested in corporations that held business ties with South Africa, an apartheid country that institutionalized racism, segregation,
and oppression of black South Africans. In the spring of 1985, widespread protests across the University of California system
campaigned for divesting financial holdings in companies doing business with South Africa. The committee's efforts led to
revised University of California's divestment policies that specified the investment in companies in South Africa that were
in good standing of the Sullivan Principles. Named after Reverend Leon Sullivan, the principles aimed to ensure equal treatment
of black people in the workplace and improve the overall quality of life for black South Africans. The committee's first recommendations
led to the UC Regents' divestment from Eaton Securities, an electrical equipment manufacturer.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], UC Divestment from South Africa Collection, AR-037, Archives and Special Collections, UC Davis Library,
University of California, Davis.
Content Description
This collection contains correspondence, press kits, newspaper clippings, and published material regarding the University
of California's divestment of companies with strong business ties with South Africa during the apartheid period.
Conditions Governing Use
All applicable copyrights for the collection are protected under chapter 17 of the U.S. Copyright Code. Requests for permission
to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Archives and Special Collections. Permission
for publication is given on behalf of the Regents of the University of California as the owner of the physical items. It is
not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Disinvestment--South Africa
University of California, Davis -- History.
Smith, Wilson (1922-)
Box 1, Folder 2
Articles Enclosed to the Regents
1985
Box 1, Folder 3
Assembly California Legislature - Agenda
May 14, 1985
Box 1, Folder 4
Board of Regents - Meeting Minutes
May 17, 1985
Box 1, Folder 5
Conflict of Interest - Participation in Decisions Concerning Divestment
1985
Box 1, Folder 6
Correspondence - Gardner, David
1985
Box 1, Folder 7
Correspondence from Bernard Kirtman
May 2, 1985
Box 1, Folder 8
Correspondence from the Divestment Coalition
March 19, 1983
Box 1, Folder 9
Correspondence on Divestment
1985
Box 1, Folder 10
Correspondence presented to the Regents
1985
Box 1, Folder 11
Correspondence to members of the Academic Council
May 1, 1985
Box 1, Folder 12
Correspondence to Regents, Faculty, Students from Tamara Scott (Graduate Students' Association)
June 13, 1985
Box 1, Folder 13
Correspondence to the Regents on Divestment
1985
Box 1, Folder 14
Correspondence to the Regents with an enclosed article and letter
1984-1985
Box 1, Folder 15
Correspondence: Background information on divestment from an investment perspective
1985
Box 1, Folder 16
Davis Division of the Academic Senate Considerations
May 1985
Box 1, Folder 17
Example Resoulution by New York City Employees' Retirement System
1984-1985
Box 1, Folder 18
Excerpt of "Eight Report" for Regents
1984-1985
Box 1, Folder 19
Gardner, David Pierpoint's response to SF Chronicle article
1985
Box 1, Folder 20
Letter from the United States Trust Company
May 8, 1985
Box 1, Folder 21
Littlejohn, David's Memo for Academic Council
June 1985
Box 1, Folder 22
Los Angeles City Initiative
1985
Box 1, Folder 23
Modification of the "California Plan"
June 1985
Box 1, Folder 24
Public Pension Trustees' Pursuit of Social Goals, 1983
1983-1985
Box 1, Folder 25
Regents Committee on Investments
1985
Box 1, Folder 26
Regents of the University of California: Minutes and Agendas
1985
Box 1, Folder 27
Remarks made by William G. Bowen on May 7, 1985
1985
Box 1, Folder 28
Tentative Agenda: Board of Regents Special Presentation
May 1985
Newspaper Clippings
1983-1985
Box 1, Folder 29
So. African Clippings
1983-1985
Box 1, Folder 30
Newspaper Clippings- South Africa
1984-1985
Box 1, Folder 31
Clippings-South Africa
1984-1985
Box 1, Folder 32
Articles - South Africa Investment/Divestment
1984-1985
Box 1, Folder 33
Clippings- Divestment
1985
Box 1, Folder 34
Clippings and Articles - South Africa
1985
Box 1, Folder 36
Clippings- "Animal Raiders Threaten Progress" and "The Misguided"
April 1985
Box 1, Folder 37
Business in the Republic of South Africa
1984-1985
Box 1, Folder 38
U.C.: Reports on Investments in South Africa
1985
Box 1, Folder 39
Response to the Treasurer's Report on South African Divestment
1985
Box 1, Folder 40
Academic Council Advisory Committee on South African Divestment
1985
Box 1, Folder 41
Sources- Special Presentation delivered at Regent's Meeting, May 17, 1985
1985
Box 1, Folder 42
State of California Fair Political Practices Commission
1985
Box 1, Folder 43
U.C. Divestment Public Forum
April 24, 1985
Box 1, Folder 44
Public Forum on Divestment - University of California
April 24, 1985
Box 1, Folder 45
Office of the President, University of California- Media Advisory
April 26, 1985
Box 1, Folder 46
Divestment Vote
June 21, 1985
Publications and Reports
1977-1985
Box 1, Folder 47
A Report to the New World Foundation by Thomas A. Troyer, Robert A. Boisture
1985
Box 1, Folder 48
America and South Africa
March 30, 1985
Box 1, Folder 49
Committee on Investments
September 11, 1977
Box 1, Folder 50
Common Stock Portfolio
1985
Box 1, Folder 51
Disinvestment from South Africa: A Dissident View by Lewis H. Gann
1985
Box 1, Folder 52
Eight Report on the Signatory Companies to the Sullivan Principles
1984
Box 1, Folder 53
IRRC- South Africa Review Service
January 1985
Box 1, Folder 54
IRRC- South Africa Review Service (Excerpt)
January 1985
Box 1, Folder 55
Report from the Academic Council on Faculty Positions on Divestment
June 12, 1985
Box 1, Folder 56
Resource Center for Nonviolence - South Africa: Apartheid in the 80's
Spring 1985
Box 1, Folder 57
South African Divestment: The Investment Issues
1984
Box 1, Folder 58
Statement of Derek Bok on Investment Policy
1984
Box 1, Folder 59
The Sullivan Statement of Principles (4th Amplification)
November 8, 1984
Box 1, Folder 60
Treasurer's Report on South African Investments - Section I
June 1985
Box 1, Folder 61
Treasurer's Report on South African Investments - Section II
June 1985
Box 1, Folder 62
Treasurer's Report on South African Investments - Section II (Copy)
June 1985
