Daily News Roundup: College Endowment to Divest From Companies That Deny Climate Change

Barnard College Board Votes to Divest From Energy Companies That Deny Climate Science: The women’s college, which has about $18 million of its $286 million endowment invested in fossil-fuel companies, says the divestiture will take time, Bloomberg reports. Hundreds of other colleges are facing calls from students and faculty to divest in fossil-fuel companies and other polluters.

A Growing Number of Nonprofits Pay Executives $1 Million or More: About 2,700 nonprofits provided seven-figure compensation to top executives in 2014, a Wall Street Journal analysis found. That’s about one-third higher than in 2011, according to the Dow Jones Newswires. The analysis looked at salaries at about 100,000 organizations and included deferred compensation and other payouts other than base salary. See The Chronicle’s database of nonprofit executive pay.

Calif. Nonprofit Funded Dutch Nationalist Party: The David Horowitz Freedom Center, derided as anti-Muslim by detractors, gave about $134,000 in 2014 and 2015 to a foundation that supports the nationalist People’s Party for Freedom, reports the Intercept, citing Dutch records. The foundation is known to solicit funds for right-wing candidate Geert Wilder. The center did not disclose the grants, which could violate rules against nonprofit politicking.

Museums Report Flood of Art Donations in Recent Years from Boomers: The trend is likely due to baby boomers’ “decluttering” in the process of moving, reports The New York Times. While most of the pieces have little monetary value, museum operators say many could have some value to historians.