Indiana University Lecturer Fighting for Job After IU Doesn’t Renew Contract

Indiana University social work lecturer Jessica Adams is challenging IU after it declined to renew her contract.

In a September lecture, Adams used a graphic labeling President Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan as covert white supremacy in her class on diversity, human rights, and social justice, prompting a student complaint.

The student reported the lesson to Congressman Jim Banks as a possible violation of Indiana’s “intellectual diversity” law, which requires faculty at public universities to promote free inquiry, free expression, and intellectual diversity.

IU removed Adams from the classroom in October, later allowing her to return if she recorded all lectures.

In May, she learned her contract would not be renewed.