Establish university oversight of all research appointments at IU, including visiting positions. Currently the campus or the university scrutinizes faculty appointments, but we often do not even have advance knowledge of other research appointments (e.g., post-docs and other grant-funded appointments). It is important that there be both a university-level check against the various USG entity lists and a department-level review, subject to university-level procedures, to assess basic qualifications.
Questions have already been added to the Applicant Information E-Form International visitors to IU who require official sponsorship—including H-1B, J-1, and O-1 visa applicants—asking whether the applicant holds or will hold at the time of appointment an active affiliation or position with a military organization or security agency, and whether the applicant expects that his or her appointment will be funded by a foreign military organization or security agency. Applicants who answer yes will be asked to provide details of the military organization or security agency and their affiliation. If the military organization or security agency is included on the U.S. government’s list of restricted foreign entities (currently China, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria), the application will be denied. If the military organization or security agency is not included on that list but has been flagged by the U.S. government as posing security concerns (currently Iraq, Libya, Russia, Venezuela, Yemen, and Turkey), the application will be subjected to a risk-based review by the Research Security Office that takes into account the nature of the affiliation and organization or agency and the field of study.
Update Graduate Student Admission Applications to seek information about active affiliations with, and/or funding from, military organizations or security agencies. New questions have been incorporated into the system-wide application process. Those questions, posed to all applicants—international and domestic—ask whether the applicant holds or will hold at the time of enrollment an active affiliation with a military organization or security agency, and, whether the applicant expects that his or her graduate education will be funded by a military organization or security agency. Applicants who answer yes will be asked to provide details of the military organization or security agency and their affiliation. If the military organization or security agency is included on the U.S. government’s list of restricted foreign entities, the application will be denied. If the military organization or security agency is not included on that list but has been flagged by the U.S. government as posing security concerns, the application will be subjected to a risk-based review by the Research Security Office that takes into account the nature of the affiliation and organization or agency and the field of study.