INSIDE HIGHER ED — The Arizona Board of Regents announced Monday it would exit all investments in Russian assets, adding the three-university system to a small but growing list of institutions that have severed economic ties with Russia as the country continues its invasion of Ukraine. The board “condemns in the strongest possible terms Vladimir Putin’s illegal invasion of the sovereign nation of Ukraine and apparent targeting of civilian populations, with one million refugees already in its wake,” Lyndel Manson, chair of the board, said in a statement. “With today’s action, the board repudiates Putin’s aggression and ensures Arizona’s public university enterprise divests of any Russian assets.” The university system has about $4 million invested in Russian assets, which is just a small fraction of its $1.2 billion endowment, according to Fred DuVal, chair-elect of the board. Because of this, the move to divest is “meaningful, but not impactful,” DuVal said, and he encouraged other colleges, universities and pension funds to do the same.