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(01/17/24 2:16pm)
IU Provost Rahul Shrivastav addressed recent backlash over the decision to suspend political science professor Abdulkader Sinno and cancel Palestinian artist Samia Halaby’s exhibition at a Bloomington Faculty Council meeting Tuesday. Both BFC members and student protesters expressed dissatisfaction with his answers during the meeting.
(01/12/24 11:58pm)
IU cancelled Palestinian abstract painter Samia Halaby’s exhibition, which had been planned for three years, according to a two-sentence letter to the artist Dec. 20. After unsuccessful appeals to the IU administration, Madison Gordon, Halaby’s grandniece who works with Halaby’s studio, started a petition urging the university to reinstate the exhibition, which has garnered 9,360 signatures as of Friday evening.
(01/09/24 1:00pm)
Indiana University administration temporarily suspended tenured IU political science professor Abdulkader Sinno following IU's denial of a room reservation for an event hosted by the Palestine Solidarity Committee while Sinno was the group's advisor. The decision has prompted pushback from faculty, with 14 current and former faculty authoring a petition in defense of Sinno and free speech on campus.
(12/18/23 6:25pm)
IU President Pamela Whitten was awarded a $162,500 bonus by the Board of Trustees for her second-year performance Indiana public media article obtained in a public records request. The bonus was approved unanimously by the board at their Aug. 24 meeting. The bonus is 25% of her $650,000 annual salary, the maximum allowed in Whitten's employment contract.
(12/08/23 10:14pm)
Protestors from IU climate action activism group Students for a New Green World gathered at Sample Gates on Friday to demand IU follow through with its proposals in its climate action plan, passed earlier this semester on Sept. 11. Talking to passersby and receiving support from honking cars traveling on Indiana Ave., the group often turned their megaphone directly south to Bryan Hall, where IU provost Rahul Shrivastav's office is located.
(11/30/23 8:44pm)
Through a letter with over 200 signatures, IU faculty are criticizing U.S. Rep. Jim Banks of Indiana’s Nov. 15 letter to IU President Pamela Whitten regarding alleged antisemitism at IU since Oct. 7.
(11/10/23 4:29pm)
The IU Board of Trustees voted to table discussions of separating the Kinsey Institute from the university Friday morning during its November board meeting.
(11/09/23 1:22pm)
The IU Board of Trustees will discuss plans to separate the Kinsey Institute, which researches human sexuality and relationships, from Indiana University at its Nov. 9-10 meeting.
(11/07/23 11:08pm)
Tamara McCollough, the second of two final candidates for the open Chief of Police for IUPD, discussed her ideas for improving transparency and relationships with the campus community during a town hall Tuesday afternoon. This meeting was held one day after the other final candidate, Keith Humphrey, spoke at a separate town hall Monday in the Indiana Memorial Union Maple Room.
(11/06/23 11:38pm)
Former Little Rock Police Department Chief of Police Keith Humphrey, one of two final candidates for the open Chief of Police position for IUPD, fielded questions from university faculty and staff about his vision for the department, if chosen for the role, during a town hall Monday afternoon in the Indiana Memorial Union Maple Room.
(10/31/23 4:09pm)
IU President Pamela Whitten presented the university’s progress on the IU strategic plan, IU 2030, during her State of the University Address on the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis campus Monday.
(10/30/23 5:32pm)
Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb has appointed IU South Bend alumnus and entrepreneur Isaac Torres to the IU Board of Trustees, according to a recent IU press release.
(10/21/23 1:17am)
IU faculty members and students are speaking out against IU President Pamela Whitten’s new statement on the Israel-Hamas war for not expressing empathy for Palestinian suffering as well as for the tragedies in Israel.
(10/03/23 3:36pm)
The IU Office of Online Education will host its eighth annual IU Online Conference Oct. 25 to 27. The conference will allow faculty and staff to learn new ways of approaching online learning and how it can benefit IU’s goal of expanding educational opportunities.
(09/29/23 3:59pm)
The Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition-United Electric Workers held a rally for its new “More Say, More Pay” campaign Thursday afternoon at Sample Gates.
(09/19/23 6:34pm)
According to the Office of The Provost and Executive Vice President, Provost Rahul Shrivastav appointed a new committee to lead the search for the position of dean at the HLS in 2022.
(09/15/23 2:20am)
IU’s new LGBTQ+ Faculty and Staff Council held a call-out meeting at 5 p.m. Thursday in the Indiana Memorial Union’s Solarium. The event gave faculty and staff the opportunity to get involved with the new council that aims to serve the LGBTQ+ community on campus.
(07/18/23 11:36am)
Indiana University-Purdue University Columbus will transition into Indiana University Columbus by fall 2024. The split was decided by both the Indiana University and Purdue University Boards of Trustees.
(06/27/23 12:52pm)
IU’s Board of Trustees approved a budget of $4.2 billion for the 2023-24 fiscal year during their meeting on June 15-16. This is approximately $200 million more than last year’s operating budget of $4 billion, according to Indiana Public Media.
(06/18/23 5:35pm)
The IU and Purdue Board of Trustees approved a decision to dissolve Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis last week. The university will be dissolved June 30, 2024, ending a 53-year collaboration between the two schools.