As students, we are direct recipients of the Foundation’s funds and contributors to the University’s growth and reputation through our tuition, fees, and role as the university’s primary stakeholders. Investments should not remain hidden from the very student body they are meant to support. The UCO Foundation cannot claim to serve its students while pulling out money from student programs and simultaneously investing in companies complicit in violence and occupation. The severing of these financial and ideological ties of support must be accompanied by the establishment of a standardized accountability system for ethical spending and partnership practices that is enforced at all levels of the university. The Foundation must implement this system to reflect the will of the UCO student body, as well as staff, to disclose & divest. We demand that the UCO Foundation as part of its public commitment must:
Disclose:
- Full transparency regarding the UCO Foundation’s investment policies that currently remain private.
- Full transparency of all investments through releasing monthly Morgan Stanley client statements.
Divest:
- Divest from all exchange-traded funds (ETFs) investing in companies that directly enable apartheid, the genocide and occupation of Palestinians, and other war crimes including Boeing, L3 Harris, and Elbit Systems.
- Reinvest only in socially responsible funds that prioritize ethical investments and exclude companies complicit in genocide and occupation.
- Adopt a Socially Responsible Investment Policy (SRI). This policy must ensure that fund managers prioritize investing into socially responsible mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs), and shifts focus to student growth rather than capitalist benefit.
- Ensure that all investments are aligned with established ethical standards, and create a process for periodic review that involves student and faculty representation.

Push War Profiteers Off Campus:
We oppose the presence of military recruiters, defense contractors, and military technology corporations who exploit the economic insecurity of students to funnel us into complicity in war and occupation. Predatory recruitment practices target low-income students, offering false promises of class mobility while fueling imperialist war and exploitation abroad.
We also demand an end to all forms of war industry partnerships on our campuses. This includes multiple engineering partnerships from Boeing, which is the world's third-largest weapons manufacturing company being routinely used to kill Palestinian civilians in Gaza. By partnering with companies like Boeing, whose weapons massacre children, the university normalizes genocide and becomes complicit in it.
- End all academic partnerships with weapons and defense corporations such as recruitment pipelines, engineering panels, campus lectures, and all other forms of collaboration.
- End all financial partnerships with weapons and defense corporations, including Boeing, through sponsorships, grants, contracts, and all other forms of funding.
- Establish a standardized accountability system for such partnerships

Implement Policies to Protect International Students
We demand an immediate end to ICE, FBI, and Police Departments on campuses and the broader criminalization of international and undocumented students. Our campuses should be sanctuaries, not sites of surveillance and state violence. Deportations and collaboration with immigration enforcement threaten the futures of many students, especially Arab and Muslim students targeted by the state, and make the university complicit with the same authorities that attack Palestinians. All students, regardless of legal status, have a fundamental right to education and should never have to fear for their safety. This is why we demand that UCO declare itself a safe sanctuary by adopting policies that:
- Deny ICE entry to campus without a judicial warrant.
Implement an action plan to notify students and ensure their safety if ICE shows up unannounced.
- Ensure that international students are not penalized academically, including being put on academic probation or receiving incomplete grades, if their legal status is ever affected.
- Ensure every affected student has access to legal assistance.
- Provide safety and “Know Your Rights” information and resources to all students.