Despite the fact that the school is complying with the state ban, the attorney general and comptroller are still skeptical.
The state’s attorney general and treasurer are at odds with Indiana University over whether the college will comply with a law that forbids it from funding the Kinsey Institute.
While the college provided some responses to an investigation, the comptroller’s company is still waiting for more comments, a media member told The College Fix next year.
Attorney General Todd Rokita ( pictured, right ) and Comptroller Elise Nieshalla ( pictured, left ) wrote in a letter on October 8 that they “refuse the claim that the university has worked diligently and transparently to verify compliance with Indiana law for the reasons stated in our initial correspondence and further stated here. Nieshalla’s department shared a copy of the letter with The Fix. In the last quarter, this email has received no responses.
The think tank, which is named after Alfred Kinsey, is still fraught with controversy over the methods employed to support his analysis, including using a baby rapist’s book. Additionally, the think tank created an app to record physical encounters from people all over the world.
The letter requests additional information regarding the state’s commitment to the think container since the rules became law in July 2023.
Additionally, the text questioned the institute’s plans to relocate outside of college in order to comply with the law. Although it was never distinct how a public school operating an organization would agree with a state money restrictions, IU had formerly considered creating a separate entity to oversee the Kinsey Institute.
According to a previous analysis from The Fix, the Kinsey Institute would need to lease office space in Bloomington for about$ 4, 000 per quarter to support its employees. The university claimed there is no record that the Kinsey Institute pays fee for its on-campus business space. A open records request was made for details on the design by The Fix. Employing IU email addresses, Kinsey Institute staffers suggest that the think tank also receives additional advantages.
The Kinsey Institute cited Indiana University’s statement from April 2023 as” IU may conduct a comprehensive legal review to ensure the school follows state law” in response to the a , Fix investigation regarding conformity with the restrictions. The Kinsey Institute and the IU faculty are devoted to the continuous, significant research and robust scholarship they are conducting.
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In response to the state’s inquiries in August, IU claimed that it was conducting an audit to ensure compliance and that it was now funding itself from sources other than donations.
In a reply letter dated August 29, IU claimed to have “worked carefully and transparently” to the statute.
According to the email, IU submitted a strategy for accounting to the Indiana State Board of Accounts in March 2024. The Kinsey Institute’s additional financial statements, which describe the institute’s direct and indirect charges, were included in this strategy.
The school also “isolating the Kinsey Institute’s fiscal accounts from all other financial transactions at Indiana University” and “establishing an extra level of authorization expert at Indiana University outside the Kinsey Institute for dealings involving the Kinsey Institute’s economic accounts.” The university is also” Blocking the transfer of any non-approved revenue to the Kinsey Institute’s financial records”.
Since the statute had been put in place, the Kinsey Institute wrote that it only received funding through “gift funding, research and grant funding, auxiliary income, ]and ] other externally sourced revenue”.
According to the National Association of Scholars, the state must ensure that the ban is in consequence.
According to official Chance Layton, who spoke to The Fix via email, “universities will almost always find a way to accomplish their inner objectives, legislation get damned.”
Ultimately, the university may be susceptible to the directions of the condition politicians and follow those through, according to Teresa Manning, even with NAS. Former Health and Human Services established in the Trump administration, Manning, told The Fix in a press release that” the Indiana Attorney General may get to close it and the University does break any and all relations with it.”
A most pressing worry about the Kinsey Institute’s work is that it “promotes ideology – especially, physical hedonism– and vice ( sexual pleasure and use of people as objects )”, Manning said. People lose the ability to govern themselves and, as a result, lose the ability to practice virtue in their own country.
The Kinsey Institute is “grossly wasteful at best and utterly malignant at worst because of the urgent need for research in such a field.”
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