DO YOU WANT LSE TO CUT TIES WITH BP?

✊  PLEDGE TO BOYCOTT THE NSS UNTIL LSE MEETS OUR DEMANDS

1. End the BP Centennial Professor Scheme 2. Divest from BP 3. Cut all ties with BP
(See Open Letter, "KICK BP OUT OF LSE")
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0 / 400 ? 400 pledges are needed to be effective:

• There are ~1700 final year students at LSE
• NSS data is published if ≥50% students fill it out (LSE gets ~70-80% response rates)
• ~20-30% would have to boycott the NSS for the boycott to be effective
• 400 pledges allows us to create real pressure
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The NSS is the most powerful tool students have to demonstrate leverage against the university. Since 2017, student movements have successfuly used this tactic to make their voices heard.

All our attempts to dialogue with LSE leadership over the past few years have achieved very little. We are turning to an NSS Boycott as the next logical escalation to get the university to listen to our demands.

The LSE community (students, staff, and faculty) has been assiduously calling for divestment over the past few years (open letters amassing 1000+ signatures, overwhelmingly supportive student union referenda, numerous protests, encampment). But all attempts to dialogue with LSE leadership so far, including our participation in their ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance Policy which provides guidance for investment decisions) Review process last year and current endowment meeting, have revealed their performative nature, and achieved very little. In the ESG Review Process, LSE leadership created a decision making structure that allowed to tick the box of community participation while rejecting the proposals of its own "ESG Consultative Group" composed of randomly selected staff, students, and faculty (including esteemed members of law faculty). LSE refused their rigorously constructed proposal to include international human right law considerations in the ESG Policy. It has become increasingly clear that appealing to the goodwill of LSE leadership is not enough in a context of those in power prioritising profit maximisation over meaningful engagement with questions of divestment.

→ We are turning to an NSS Boycott as the next logical escalation to get the university to listen to our demands.

The NSS has been tied to the increased marketisation of higher education and biased scoring against women and people of colour (read Times Higher Education article).

LSE's reputation is based on much more than student satisfaction. Cambridge University successfuly boycotted the NSS for several years. Further, students have repeatedly made clear that they do not want their university to maintain ties with companies involved in climate breakdown, crimes against the Palestinian people, and the global arms trade. This reputation is not one supported by the student body, as reflected by the 2024 and 2026 referenda (89% and 84% in favour of divestment, respectively).

Student departemental representatives, academic mentors, Student Union representatives, and internal feedback processes such as TQAROS all provide chanels to raise feedback often in a much more depth. The student, faculty, and staff demands surrounding LSE's endowment and other eggregious ties are equally important to the student experience, as the quality of education is called into question when teachings are not reflected in the operation of the institution. Rejecting the NSS as an empty process of student validation forces the university to turn to the students instead of the NSS results to understand their experience.

Pledge your support for the NSS Boycott! This is still useful to create a wider conversation on the BP campaign and the need for an NSS Boycott around campus - it is our collective responsibility to engage in this conversation. Share the pledge with final year undergraduate students!

This year, we have chosen to target LSE's ties with a specific company, BP, to better draw out its ties with the university and reveal the logics which underpin and are reproduced through corporate ties. BP is one of LSE's 10% biggest investees (over £2 million), and is also funder of the BP Centennial Professor Scheme (see Open Letter). BP is and has been an actor of imperialism, ecocide and genocide, and the 8th largest historical contributor to climate change worldwide.