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(03/13/24 10:47pm)
Gov. Eric Holcomb signed Senate Bill 202 on Wednesday, increasing the state legislature’s oversight on Indiana’s public universities and changing the criteria for tenure.
(03/05/24 4:35pm)
Members of the IU community met for a “Day of Action” to protest alleged attacks on academic freedom from Indiana University administration and the state government. The day-long event featured a teach-in and rally to address concerns surrounding Senate Bill 202, the threats previously faced by the Kinsey Institute and the Israel-Hamas war.
(03/01/24 5:07pm)
In a unanimous vote Friday, the IU Board of Trustees approved a recommendation from IU President Pamela Whitten to forgo the establishment of a nonprofit entity for the Kinsey Institute, according to a press release.
(02/29/24 2:02am)
The IU Board of Trustees is expected to decide the future of the Kinsey Institute during its Feb. 29-March 1 meeting. However, Kinsey faculty and students still don’t know what that future will look like.
(02/28/24 11:50pm)
A Friends of Kinsey member said an IU administrator infringed on free speech rights by demanding the group move their table from Sample Gates.
(02/28/24 12:40am)
After months of protests and listening sessions, the IU Board of Trustees will once again discuss designating the Kinsey Institute as a “university-related entity” at meetings Feb. 29 and March 1 at IU Southeast’s campus in New Albany. IU officials have said the decision will help put them in compliance with a new Indiana law barring state dollars from the institute, but critics claim the move will put the institute’s collections of sexological artifacts in jeopardy by placing them in university control, where they could be vulnerable to future outside pressure.
(02/21/24 5:07pm)
In a letter sent to U.S. Rep. Jim Banks of Indiana obtained by the IDS through a public records request, IU President Pamela Whitten explained IU’s safety procedures and antisemitism prevention measures in the wake of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas. The letter, sent Dec. 1, was a response to a Nov. 15 letter Banks sent to Whitten warning IU could lose federal funding if it condoned or tolerated antisemitism on campus.
(02/19/24 6:33pm)
University faculty are speaking out in opposition to Senate Bill 202, a controversial bill that would heighten legislative overview of Indiana’s public universities to increase “intellectual diversity” and change tenure criteria.
(02/19/24 12:19am)
A member of Jewish Voice for Peace Indiana’s coordinating committee called for a vote of no confidence against IU President Pamela Whitten and Provost Rahul Shrivastav in response to alleged repression of Pro-Palestinian voices during “Windows on Palestinian Life: Meeting Palestinians” on Feb. 4.
(02/14/24 6:23pm)
A canceled exhibit. A suspended professor. A sex research institute with an uncertain future. A bill critics say would eviscerate tenure.
(02/10/24 12:19am)
The Department of Education Office for Civil Rights opened an investigation into IU on Feb. 5 in response to a Title VI complaint received Dec. 14. Zachary Marschall, editor in chief of Campus Reform, a national conservative media organization, alleges in the complaint that IU failed to adequately respond to antisemitism on campus.
(02/08/24 5:19pm)
The Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition (IGWC) formally expressed a lack of confidence in Pamela Whitten as IU’s President in a membership vote Feb. 5 following a general meeting.
(01/29/24 8:21pm)
IU Kinsey Institute faculty and staff are urging IU to be more transparent as the university weighs its options regarding funding for the institute in a Jan. 22 letter to Provost Rahul Shrivastav and the special working group assembled to conduct listening sessions.
(01/26/24 11:46pm)
A silent demonstration in protest of IU’s cancellation of Palestinian painter Samia Halaby’s exhibition at the Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art ended with chants outside of the Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President on Friday afternoon.
(01/24/24 6:59pm)
As IU transitioned from former President Michael McRobbie to Pamela Whitten, the university’s leadership underwent significant changes. Only six of the 16 vice presidents under McRobbie during January in 2021 remain, with Whitten’s cabinet of 18 including some new roles or roles with altered titles and priorities.
(01/23/24 10:59pm)
Indiana University Chief Health Officer Aaron Carroll will step down from his role at IU on March 18 to become president and CEO of AcademyHealth.
(01/21/24 8:47pm)
IU faculty, staff and students expressed safety and intellectual freedom concerns in the university's third and final public listening session Jan. 19 regarding the future of the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction.
(01/20/24 9:51pm)
The International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art Museum Watch condemned the cancellation of several exhibits associated with pro-Palestinian views, including Samia Halaby’s exhibition at IU’s Eskenazi Museum of Art, in a statement Monday.
(01/19/24 1:53am)
Some faculty are arguing IU administration violated university policy when suspending political science professor Abdulkader Sinno without first consulting the Bloomington Faculty Council, potentially creating a chilling effect for faculty. At the heart of the dispute is a difference between university and campus policy on disciplinary action and ambiguity in a provision of university policy.
(01/18/24 1:48am)
Members of the Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition (IGWC) assembled at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday in Franklin Hall to formally file a request to IU President Pamela Whitten’s office explicitly calling for a living wage minimum based on the MIT Living Wage Calculator for graduate workers — known as Student Academic Appointees (SAAs). The IGWC also asked for the union to be recognized by the administration through voting rights.