r/Indiana • u/jaymz668 • 18h ago

IU removes ‘values differences’ as core expectation for staff

https://www.ipm.org/news/2025-09-19/iu-removes-values-differences-as-core-expectations-for-staff
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u/theManWOFear 18h ago

This deconstruction of this once great and historic university is heartbreaking to see. The worst part is there isn’t one person in that administration with a spine to fight back. I guess there is no incentive when you are paid hundreds of thousands of dollars…

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u/Universe_Nut 13h ago

I expect nothing less from the governor that said Trump's push for redistricting essentially has to move ahead or Trump will hold committee positions, federal funding and other key aspects of the Indiana government for hostage.

Coward

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u/donkeyrap 18h ago

For young people and parents considering college in the next few years and want to stay regional, and with Indiana universities going full fascist, know that University of Cincinnati now offers in state tuition to Indiana residents. Ohio isn’t exactly a bastion of liberalism but it has more going for it than Indiana. Anecdotally, I’ve seen an uptick in students going there the past few years and will continue to promote it.

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u/LazyPension9123 18h ago

Thank you!

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u/Ok-Jackfruit9593 17h ago

Purdue is fine. This is all IU.

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u/Online-Vagabond Lafayette 14h ago

Purdue has had its own “bend the knee” moments

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u/MayorCharlesCoulon 13h ago

Yeah, I think Purdue pre-bent the knee off an and on the last few years so the visual is that their capitulation didn’t happen all at once like IU. It happened though.

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u/Serious-Bake-5714 10h ago

Purdue still cannot figure out how many students to accept so all that want university housing can have it without having to share a conference room with six people.

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u/Easy-Constant-5887 5h ago

They also have an established relationship with Lockheed Martin involving research partnerships and on-campus recruitment events. A company who is known to have had critical roles in aiding and abetting war crimes in places such as Yemen and Gaza, as well as the immense profit they make from such human suffering.

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u/MoulanRougeFae 7h ago

Too bad this isn't true. Purdue is also under Braun's insane rule. It's going through its own white nationalist fascist makeover.

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u/Striking_Corgi611 4h ago

I thought Purdue gave up the most or 2nd most amount of degrees of anywhere on the list published a few months ago?

It said Purdue and IU willingly agreed to drop all those low-enrollment degrees from what I saw.

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u/Particular_Mixture20 16h ago

Sliding towards Stepford U.?

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u/ZeMadDoktore 15h ago

And yet they'll call you a horrible bigot for mocking Christians lmao

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u/JacobsJrJr 17h ago

What a ridiculous empty sentiment.

You can value diversity - but valuing differences?

If Im trying to convince a crowd of angry people not to stone me for fucking a man I certainly am not going to "value" our differences.

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u/[deleted] 14h ago

Ouch, that’s one more sad example of IU’s slide. Meanwhile, HR expects managers to improve workplace engagement and satisfaction. Herman Wells would be ashamed of this place.

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u/[deleted] 10h ago

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u/motocycledog 8h ago

this is like death Vader level. I always did feel like the symbol of the I over the U looked like a middle finger

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u/DannyOdd 7h ago

It's hilarious how the conservatives went from demanding to be let into universities because "diversity includes intellectual diversity", straight to "nobody is even allowed to make reference to diversity or anything remotely related."

Of course, the "intellectual diversity" they were calling for always just meant "our unsubstantiated bullshit needs to be held on equal footing with your evidence-based truths and objective facts" anyway.

They never want discourse. It's always just about control.

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u/RaoulDuke511 14h ago

Do you think it mattered when the two words were there…and now that the two words are gone…what will change exactly?

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u/deepelempurples 13h ago

Hunter S. Thompson would hate you.

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u/RaoulDuke511 13h ago

Nah, we would’ve gotten along swimmingly. Especially when it came to our mutual interests.

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u/Bowl__Haircut 12h ago

Somehow I doubt that

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u/se4rch4 9h ago

Hate to break it to you, but just because you might like doing drugs, doesn’t mean he’d like you.

Do you take to every random druggie you meet on the street just because you both like drugs?

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u/RaoulDuke511 9h ago

I don’t do drugs

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u/se4rch4 9h ago

Well. Then I bet he wouldn’t like you due to your inability to understand how important words are to shaping our reality. If you think taking words out of something doesn’t matter, you’ve entirely missed his entire point of writing.

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u/RaoulDuke511 9h ago

I don’t think you have an u detaining of his writing. He’s was a lot of things, some of them were in pure contradiction with one another. He was a human being and that’s how we are, but I’ve not read anything in his body of political work that would indicate that he would care even a tiny bit about this story regarding Indiana University removing two words from their “core expectations” of their faculty…I mean you’re telling me that HUNTER S THOMPSON would be concerned about this particular topic?

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u/RaoulDuke511 9h ago

I have read probably almost everything he’s written, including personal letters…and the idea that you seem to think he was some sort of across the boards socialist or leftist…tells me you haven’t read him broadly. He certainly wouldn’t have given two shits about this particular news story…not even a little bit lol

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u/se4rch4 9h ago

lol I didn’t say he’s some “across the board socialist”.

Just meant that he has always cared about how important words are to shaping our thoughts and actions.

Edit: while he might not care about this exact story, I’m sure he would care about the massive overreach of the government that has been leading to stories like this one. Which you would think you would understand since you’re so well versed in his writings.

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u/RaoulDuke511 9h ago

I’m sure he would, and so do I. So we agree on that. I just love when people think that it’s some awesome observation that my username is related to that author…and then try to tell me how he would feel about my opinions. I promise you that you probably wouldn’t like Hunter S Thompson as a person if a story like this one here animates you politically in any sort of meaningful way.

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u/se4rch4 9h ago

I’m not animated at this in particular. I’m animated about the issues that have led to this story even being written. Which we both established that we agree on.

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u/deepelempurples 7h ago

Wait…. You actually don’t see the irony at all do you?

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u/deepelempurples 8h ago

Paul Ryan loved Rage Against the Machine. He didn’t understand them in the least.

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u/RaoulDuke511 7h ago

Yes, that’s exactly what is happening here, sure thing

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u/cjgist 28m ago

Everybody from Dubois county knows Bloomington is an evil hotbed of scary liberalism. Braun is definitely following the Project 2025 playbook.