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Vote of No Confidence News

An April 16, 2024, all-faculty meeting resulted in votes of no confidence for 3 high-level IU administrators

Media Coverage

• The Past Month Has Seen a Flurry of No-Confidence Votes in College Presidents (May 09, 2024). A flurry of votes of no confidence in college leaders, many of them prompted by their handling of pro-Palestinian encampments, has swept higher ed in the past month. The Chronicle of Higher Education
• IU Bloomington Faculty Votes No Confidence in Leaders (Apr 17, 2024). Inside Higher Ed on IU Faculty vote no confidence in the administration of Pamela Whitten and Rahul Shrivastav Inside Higher Ed
• Hundreds of Indiana University faculty members vote 'no confidence' in Whitten (Apr 17, 2024). Bloomington Herald-Times article on IU Faculty vote no confidence in the administration of Pamela Whitten and Rahul Shrivastav Herald-Times
• IU-B's faculty holding a vote of no confidence against Whitten. What does that mean? (Apr 14, 2024). Article in the Bloomington Herald-Times about what it would mean if there were a vote of no confidence against Pamela Whitten's administration Herald-Times
• ‘A vote is not a temper tantrum’: No confidence movement comes from years of tension (Apr 12, 2024). Article in the IDS outlining the mismanagement and malicious administration of Pamela Whitten and Rahul Shrivastav Indiana Daily Student
• No-Confidence Vote In President And Provost Looms At Indiana University (Apr 07, 2024). Article in Forbes about the possibility of a vote of no confidence at IU Bloomington Forbes
• Faculty to consider vote of no confidence in IU administrators April 16 (Apr 03, 2024). Article in Indiana Daily Student about scheduling vote of no confidence against Whitten administration on April 16, 2024 Indiana Daily Student
• IU Bloomington faculty's 'No Confidence' vote for Whitten, Provost set for April 16   (Apr 02, 2024). Article about scheduling the Vote of No Confidence against the Pamela Whitten administration on April 16, 2024 Indiana Public Media
• Why Higher Ed Is Seeing a Spate of High-Profile No-Confidence Votes  (Sep 29, 2023). Editorial in The Chronicle of Higher Education about why there have been so many votes of no confidence in higher education Chronicle of Higher Education

Formal statements

• As free speech controversies mount, Indiana University faculty pitch vote of no confidence in university leadership (Apr 10, 2024). IU’s postponement of an event featuring Hamas critic Mosab Hassan Yousef is the latest in a long line of recent free speech issues at the university.  FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights & Freedom)

Open letters and testimonials

• IU’s trustees have a deep aversion to transparency, and a recent opinion from the state’s Public Access Counselor makes the problem worse (Nov 09, 2022). Op-ed by Steve Sanders regarding the lack of transparency by IU's Board of Trustees Steve Sanders via Medium
• IU’s trustees finally own up to their violation of the Open Door Law (Dec 02, 2021). Article by Steve Sanders reporting on the Board of Trustees admitting they violated FOIA and Open Door Laws Steve Sanders via Medium
• ‘You have no idea how strange this process has been’: The long, difficult search for IU’s 19th president (Oct 06, 2021). Report and investigation by Steve Sanders about the appointment of Pamela Whitten by the Board of Trustees Steve Sanders via Medium