U.C. Proxy Voting Skirts Review Guidelines, Documents Show
Under U.C.’s proxy voting guidelines, the university is required to review case by case all shareholder resolutions that are "controversial or relate to social issues." But thousands of documents obtained from sources and under a California Public Records Act request by The Bay Citizen show that, over the past two years, Institutional Shareholder Services, a proxy voting service, voted on behalf of U.C. against hundreds of resolutions that appeared to fall within the university’s guidelines.
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by Tess Townsend, The New York Times.