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The Board of Trustees unanimously confirmed University Faculty Council changes to the academic appointee conduct policy at its meeting in late July.

It will free the university’s hand in addressing the Dunn Meadow encampment and will affect the International Graduate Workers Coalition if it decides to picket again in the fall. 

The chancellor will serve in the President’s Cabinet and oversee the Office of the Provost, the current leader in Bloomington.

Indiana University Bloomington Faculty declared no confidence in three university leaders: President Pamela Whitten, Provost Rahul Shrivastav and Vice Provost Faculty and Academic Affairs Carrie Docherty.

Their anticipated decision today would have determined whether the Kinsey Institute would be split between a nonprofit and the Kinsey name and collections.

The new budget includes salary increases of up to three percent for IU employees. Inflation currently stands at four percent.  

Kelley School of Business alumnus and real estate investor J. Timothy Morris will replace longtime trustee Harry Gonso and IU student body president Kyle Seibert will be the next student trustee.

Last week, a House committee passed a bill that would give township boards more input on township budgets. On Thursday, a Senate committee passed a bill that would create a process for removing township trustees.