The Indiana General Assembly and Gov. Mike Braun have ended a nearly 135-year practice that gives Indiana University alumni the right to elect some members to the university’s Board of Trustees by sliding a last-minute provision into the state’s budget that gives the governor authority to appoint all nine members .
The late budget additions — curiously aimed only at IU — also weaken faculty tenure and waters down the governance role of faculty members at IU.
As a current, and it seems a soon-to-be-former, candidate for alumni trustee, I’m disappointed and frustrated that the state could so cavalierly render moot my time and effort in service of a university that helped change my life…