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Our Concerns
Key events during the Whitten administration that have eroded IU's capacity to function as a respected institution of higher learning.
November 2025
IU removes a School of Social Work lecturer from her class following an intellectual diversity complaint​.
October 2025
IU fires Director of Student Media Jim Rodenbush, who refused to censor the Indiana Daily Student newspaper. IU temporarily cut the IDS print edition.
June 2025
The Indiana Commission for Higher Education eliminates 43 and suspended 206 majors across the IU system.​ See our breakout of the programs impacted at IU Bloomington here (other campuses coming soon).
May 2025
The Indiana state legislature eliminates elected alumni positions from the IU Board of Trustees, allowing the governor to appoint all Trustees.
May 2025
A court grants a preliminary injunction against the "expressive activity policy" enacted following 2024 protests, deeming the policy a likely violation of the First Amendment.
February 2025
Trustees grant Pres. Whitten a 28% pay raise, and extend her contract by five years without notice.
April 2024
Hundreds of IU-Bloomington faculty support a vote of "no confidence" in Pres. Whitten, Provost Rahul Shrivastav, and Vice Provost Carrie Docherty.​ Numerous IUB schools pass similar votes.
March 2025
IU terminates professor Xiaofeng Wang and libraries analyst Nianli Ma without due process​​​​.​​​
February 2024
The Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition issues a vote of no confidence in the Whitten administration.
December 2024
Nearly 1 in 5 faculty members report that they have been "disciplined or threatened with discipline for their research, teaching, talks outside the classroom to an academic audience, and/or speech outside the university purview.”
April 2025
Several Trustees charge a student with over a dozen counts of felony intimidation for sending them holiday cards demanding that the university divest from Israel.
October 2025
Pres. Whitten ties her tenure to IU Football head coach Curt Cignetti's by included a clause in his new contract that cuts his buyout in half should she leave the university before he does.
December 2023
IU cancels the scheduled exhibition of Palestinian-American artist Samia Halaby because of her social media posts describing Israel's bombardment of Gaza as a "genocide."
December 2023
IU suspends Professor Abdulkader Sinno, claiming he violated clerical procedure by helping a pro-Palestine student group book a space for a meeting.
December 2023
The IUPUI Faculty Council reports that Pres. Whitten and the Trustees are making crucial decisions "behind closed doors and without faculty consultation" after they announce that IUPUI will dissolve in July 2024.
April 2022
IUB graduate students go on strike to demand union recognition. Despite widespread support from faculty, the Whitten administration refuses to recognize the union or work with them to address grad students' needs, prompting an emergency meeting of over 700 faculty.
October 2021
Maurer School of Law professor Steve Sanders reports that the Board of Trustees ignored procedure and rejected the search committee's recommendations by selecting Pamela Whitten as IU's 19th president.