The University of Vermont will publicly disclose its endowment investments by the end of the week, school officials said Wednesday. The decision comes in response to demands made by pro-Palestinian student protesters, who have staged an encampment on the Burlington campus since Sunday.

UVM provost and senior vice president Patricia Prelock met with a group of students on Tuesday evening and told them that the university would disclose its financial investments, making them accessible later this week, according to a post in the “UVM Palestine Solidarity Encampment” Telegram channel Wednesday morning.

Adam White, a university spokesperson, confirmed to VTDigger that the university plans to disclose that information.

He also confirmed that Prelock, during her meeting with students, agreed to bring their concerns over the university’s commencement speaker back to leadership for discussion.

Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, is set to speak at UVM’s commencement ceremony later this month. Protesters have characterized the choice as insulting, given that the U.S. vetoed three resolutions at the United Nations calling for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war.

The move by UVM officials comes as the encampment has continued to expand. The Telegram post stated that protesters were encouraged but would remain until all their demands — which include divestment from “all weapons manufacturers, Israeli companies, and companies involved in the occupation of historic Palestine” — are met.

On Sunday, tents began to spring up on UVM’s Andrew Harris Commons — joining a surge of student activism on campuses across the country amid growing outcry over Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip in its war against Hamas. Elsewhere in Vermont, encampments have also formed at Middlebury College and Sterling College.

Hundreds of student protesters in dozens of states have been arrested. On Tuesday night, hundreds of New York City police officers in riot gear cleared protesters on Columbia University’s campus.

In Vermont, school administrators have so far taken a different approach, and UVM’s decision to disclose its investments distinguishes it from a number of other institutions grappling with student protests.

Demonstrators at Brown University agreed to dismantle their encampment, which had been removed by Tuesday evening, after university leaders said they would discuss divesting funds from companies connected to the Israeli military campaign in Gaza, according to the New York Times.

UVM administrators have given no indication that they plan to use police force on students, but they have set up a surveillance tower over the encampment.

By Tuesday afternoon, several dozen tents could be seen on campus. Protesters were seated in Adirondack chairs on their laptops, or in their tents, as students walked by.

Many students at the encampment spoke with VTDigger on Tuesday but declined to provide their names, citing a fear of reprisal from the university or police.

Later in the afternoon, speakers led chants and waved signs calling for a cease-fire in Gaza.

“We have a momentum that I don’t think is going away any time soon,” said Jon Shaffer, an assistant professor of sociology at UVM, during a teach-in at the encampment on Tuesday.

This story will be updated.

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