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
- Pamela Whitten says she won't resign in listening session with arts and sciences faculty (May 21, 2024). Article detailing Whitten's response to two listening sessions with faculty leaders from the College of Arts and Sciences. The Herald-Times
- President Whitten misses listening sessions for eye surgery (May 16, 2024). IU President Pamela Whitten is having eye surgery, which caused her to miss work and listening sessions with faculty. Indiana Public Media
- IU Trustees to review campus climate amid controversies over Whitten's leadership (May 15, 2024). Indiana University’s Board of Trustees will commission an independent review of campus climate. Indiana Public Media
- At listening sessions with President, faculty say they’re fed up (May 15, 2024). An article about IU President Pamela Whitten holding listening sessions with faculty from the university’s academic units. Indiana Public Media
- IU South Bend faculty call for Whitten’s removal (May 15, 2024). IU South Bend faculty are the most recent university group calling for the removal of President Pamela Whitten and the repeal of campus bans for protesters who have been arrested. Indiana Public Media
- Campus units vote against Whitten (May 13, 2024). In the past month, about half of Bloomington campus schools have voted against university President Pamela Whitten and her administration’s actions against protesters on campus. Indiana Public Media
- 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
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