Next week, I will begin my 38th year in the classroom as a professor of political science at Indiana University-Bloomington.

Like every semester, I am excited to be meeting new students and to be teaching them.

But this year, both my ability to prepare and my enthusiasm to teach have been weakened by the major changes to the university that have been imposed by the state – eagerly embraced and sometimes even exceeded by President Pamela Whitten’s administration. Opinion: Indiana should cap out-of-state student enrollment to solve brain drain

Through these changes, IU is being transformed into a sad shell of the once proudly global research university that Herman B. Wells pioneered through decades of service as IU president and chancellor, and which I joined back in 1987. Need a break?

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