IU Lecturer Pulled From Social-Justice Class Over White Supremacy Graphic Listing MAGA

Overview

• Indiana University removed lecturer Jessica Adams from a graduate social-justice course on October 6 after a student’s complaint was sent to Senator Jim Banks, who forwarded it to university officials.
• Administrators opened a review and warned Adams she might violate the state’s intellectual-diversity requirement for public universities.
• Adams says the graphic, widely used to teach structural racism, was misinterpreted and that discussing white supremacy falls squarely within the course’s scope.
• The campus chapter of the American Association of University Professors alleges the probe was mishandled, citing denied counsel and overlapping investigator–complainant roles, and argues the law is being used to stifle intellectual diversity.
• Adams awaits the review’s outcome while teaching three other courses; the university declined to comment, and the case follows an earlier sanction of professor Ben Robinson and broader Trump administration pressure on universities over campus policy.