Faculty at IU’s largest college overwhelmingly vote for President Whitten and Provost Shrivastav’s termination

Faculty from Indiana University’s College of Arts and Sciences (COAS) – the university’s largest college by student enrollment – overwhelmingly called for the Board of Trustees to terminate the employment of President Pamela Whitten and Provost Rahul Shrivastav during a college-wide vote on May 1.

More than 75% of the college’s faculty participated, with 911 of 1209 total eligible faculty voting.

Of them, 86% voted for a resolution calling for trustees to “terminate the employment of President Whitten and Provost Shrivastav based on the vote of no confidence and their handling of events in Dunn Meadow.” Of the voting faculty, 92.1% also called for trustees to repeal the recently adopted policy regarding the use of structures in Dunn Meadow, and 93.4% called for trustees to repeal the no-trespass bans imposed on demonstrators who were arrested by Indiana State Police on April 25 and 27.

The COAS is IU’s largest college, with 12,925 undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in the 2024 spring semester.

Andre´s Guzma´n, an associate professor in the COAS, said the overwhelming vote from the university’s largest body demonstrates wavering support for Whitten's administration on campus.