Indiana Alumni Magazine
Looking Back at IU
Indiana University operated a biological station in 1906 on the shores of Winona Lake, near Warsaw, Ind. According to the Arbutus, the station was designed as a field laboratory and place of research for IU students. Under the direction of zoology professor Carl H. Eigenmann, BA 1886, MA 1887, PhD 1889, the station hosted courses in zoology, nature study, embryology, histogenesis, and histology. A full term's credit was given for work at the field station. Students enjoyed the station as a place "to study nature, and to wear out old clothes."
Alfred C. Kinsey, the IU zoologist who became famous for his studies of human sexual behavior, died in August 1956. In 1947, prior to the publication of his landmark book Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, Kinsey incorporated his research under the title "Institute for Sex Research Inc." It later became the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction Inc.
In June 1981, the IU trustees approved a $624 million university budget for the next fiscal year, a 10 percent increase over the 1980-81 spending plan. The general fund of $289 million provided instruction for about 80,000 students on IU's eight campuses. This past May, the trustees approved a $2.3 billion total budget, with a $1.3 billion general fund for an enrollment expected to approach 100,000.