We recommend that the University open a public inquiry into all endowment and endowment related investments and divest immediately from entities demonstrably and disproportionately harmful to Black lives, especially those implicated in the prison industrial and fossil fuel industrial complexes.

• A community council representing students, faculty, administrators, and adjacent community members should be formed to identify priorities for reinvestment.

It is important that Northeastern University contribute the entirety of its requested share in the City of Boston’s Payment In Lieu of Taxes program (PILOT) and create a representative community council to define and oversee the implementation of community benefits created as a result of that program.

We recommend that the University engage in the campaign set forth by the Northeastern University Progressive Student Alliance and compensate the dining hall workers who were abruptly laid off on March 17th, 2020 for the thirty days following that date.

In support of Northeastern’s participation in the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce’s Pacesetters Program, we propose that the University further its efforts to promote and increase departmental procurement spending at Black owned businesses in Boston.

• To hold our entire University community accountable, department specific data on total dollar amount and percentage of total procurement spend at Black-owned and other Minority Business Enterprises should be published on a semesterly or annual basis.

We recommend that the University establish a standing community council with adequate and meaningful representation of local residents to address Northeastern University’s role in the ongoing gentrification of Roxbury. This community council must participate in the co-design and approval of all new developments.