All three alumni-elected Indiana University trustees, Vivian Winston, Donna Spears and Jill Maurer Burnett, have been removed by Indiana's governor.

Donna Spears, one of the members of the IU Board of Trustees who was removed from her position, provided a statement to FOX59/CBS4 about Monday’s developments. That statement is included in full below: For more than 130 years,

Indiana Gov. Mike Braun on Tuesday defended his sudden removal of alumni-elected Indiana University trustees and his contentious picks to replace them.