February 23, 2012 Meeting – Carleton Responsible Investment Committee

Location: Upper Sayles

Time: 8:30 am

Present Bakhtawar Chaudhary, Joe Concannon, Danette DeMann, Ellen Farnham, Daniel Groll, Fadi Hakim, Sara Hooker

Absent Chris Clark, Mihaela Czobor-Lupp, Forrest McKnight, Fred Rogers, Duncan Sallstrom, Kristen Vellinger

Secretary: Claire Milsted

Implementing the new proxy policy: Daniel has volunteered to be the custodian of the spreadsheet of which resolutions we submit and what happens to them. We could put this list on Carleton Docs, or in our Collab folder. We probably do not need to show the trustees the full text of each resolution that goes through, but it may be useful to keep the texts for ourselves. We may also want to sort the list by issue area and/or by date. We should also try to figure out how we can implement the policy in a way that causes minimal problems for the investment office.

We briefly discussed some of the resolutions that have come up.

Dan Apfel’s visit: Dan Apfel is coming on either April 3^rd or April 4^th. We have sent a request for reimbursement to Fred. It would be nice to do a public event, but even more important is scheduling time for him to talk to us. Perhaps we could also invite a representative from the Investment Office; it would be interesting to hear their reactions to any suggestions that Dan might have. Perhaps we should contact either the current student intern or a former student intern.

Future Plans: In the spring, we may do another survey. It might be nice to have a psychology or sociology professor weigh in before we send out the survey, so that they can help construct the survey to be more informative. We also might want to continue dialogue with the Investment Office about the possibility of an SRI fund.