On October 27, 2023, members of the Kinsey Institute learned of plans to move the Kinsey Institute (KI) from its longtime home at Indiana University, Bloomington and into a separate 501c3 organization. This proposal is dramatically different from past KI organizational structures, which were designed to protect sensitive research data and controversial materials from state control. While this proposal has been couched in terms of protecting KI from recent legislation, it actually makes KI vulerable. There is no guarantee that members of KI would control the board of any new organization. This would leave KI vulnerable to dissolution if a hostile board takes control now or in the future. The plan would sever the Kinsey Institute from the Kinsey Institute Library and Special Collections, which have always been a vital and inextricable part of the Institute. The Collections would remain under IU control. 

We call on President Whitten, the Board of Trustees, and the IU administration to maintain the integrity of the Kinsey Institute and Collections as a unified organization at Indiana University.  #KeepKinseyIU