Rahul Shrivastav is the Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor of Indiana University Bloomington.
As chief academic officer, he leads the campus in advancing academic excellence—supporting faculty, promoting student success, and fostering a collaborative environment for learning, research, and creative activity.
74,000+undergrad applications, up 39% from 52,000 in 2022.
48,424students enrolled, up 6% from 45,328 in 2021.
60+new faculty hired through the Faculty 100 initiative
LUDDY SCHOOL
Byung-Cheol Min and his SMART Lab team had their paper PRIMT selected for oral presentation at NeurIPS 2025, placing in the top 0.36% of submissions. The framework helps robots learn complex tasks using AI-generated feedback that mimics human guidance.
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FROM THE PROVOST
Provost Shrivastav highlights the importance of IU Bloomington’s interdisciplinary degree programs in preparing students to tackle complex challenges, collaborate across fields and drive meaningful impact.
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LUDDY SCHOOL
Luddy Professor David Crandall is part of a collaborative research group that has received a $900,000 NSF grant to develop AI tools to aid in science education by helping middle school students better learn to interpret science diagrams.
Read moreIndiana University’s new GenAI 101 course empowers anyone with an IU login to gain practical generative AI skills in a free, self-paced online course with no prior experience needed. This free, self-paced online course will focus on 20 key GenAI skills and three critical areas:
IUB 2030 charts an ambitious, seven-year vision, building on our strengths to further elevate the Bloomington campus and increase impact across the communities we serve and support.
Campus partners are working towards the creation of our implementation plan- the guiding light to achieving our ambitious 2030 goals.
64%Increased campus fundraising from $120 M (2022) to $197 M (2025)
$75 Millioninvestment to expand engineering academic programs
16 new degreesto meet market demands
