Alice Pawley, a professor of engineering education at Purdue University, said that many faculty members in Indiana were angered by the new restrictions, and that “nobody trusts that this is actually going to be fairly applied.” Many felt discouraged about their job security, believing it would be at the mercy of trustees who are not experts in their fields and would be making decisions on the basis of highly subjective criteria, Dr. Pawley said.
Before people dismiss this, Indiana is actually pretty big for engineering, medical/chemical, teaching, journalism, and even human sexuality.
Other colleges will step up, but this could potentially destroy scientific institutions that have been around for decades.
A bunch of important science has come out of Indiana for whatever strange reason.
The Midwest in general has always been an academic powerhouse.
Sometimes it makes sense tho, like Ohio and aerospace.
If you’re born and raised in Ohio, you’d want to get as far away from the planet as you could too.
Indiana has the second or third largest naval base in the country - Crane Naval Base. Oddly, it’s nowhere near water in the middle of nowhere in the southern part of the state. The military and defense contractors do a lot of recruiting for engineers at Purdue.