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A separation agreement for the university’s “voluntary faculty retirement incentive program” includes a clause, first reported by Indiana Public Media, that states employees “shall not defame, or otherwise disparage, the University or any of its successors, divisions, or affiliates, or any of their respective current or former trustees, officers, employees, agents, representatives, attorneys, or insurers, in their representative as well as their individual capacities,” according to a copy of an agreement shared with The Chronicle. They must also agree “not to make negative statements of any kind regarding the University.”