<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><font color="#000000"><a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/s/stanford_university/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More articles about Stanford University" class="meta-org" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; line-height: 23px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Stanford University</a><span style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; line-height: 23px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> announced Tuesday that it would divest its $18.7 billion endowment of stock in coal-mining companies, becoming the first major university to lend support to a nationwide campaign to purge endowments and pension funds of fossil fuel investments.</span></font><div><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; line-height: 23px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></font></div><div><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/07/education/stanford-to-purge-18-billion-endowment-of-coal-stock.html?emc=edit_th_20140507&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=35653813">http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/07/education/stanford-to-purge-18-billion-endowment-of-coal-stock.html?emc=edit_th_20140507&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=35653813</a></div><div><br></div></body></html>