The vote came a day after Ohio State University’s Board of Trustees publicly voiced its opposition to the bill, emphasizing that the changes and mandates would increase administrative bloat and pull resources away from student success. The lawmakers approved committee Chair Cirino’s bill without much pomp and circumstance – while protesters sat in silence, wearing bright red shirts that read “Silence = Death to Higher Ed.” Weeks after opponents broke statehouse records by submitting more than 500 testimonies on SB83, no spoken testimony on the bill was permitted in the Senate Workforce and Higher Education Committee on Wednesday morning. Ohio State not demolishing historic Black landmark for new rehab hospital “This bill will short change our students, undermine our faculty and diminish our state’s position as a global leader in education.” “I believe this is the worst assault on academic freedom that Ohio has ever seen,” Smith said.
Kent Smith (D-Euclid) rose in opposition to the legislation, highlighting that 22 of 33 state senators graduated from Ohio universities, many of which have top-ranking programs. With changes weakening some of the bill’s most controversial provisions, like the ban on Chinese research partnerships and some syllabus posting requirements, the substitute bill approved Wednesday expands upon others – including the implementation of post-tenure review and limiting of employees’ collective bargaining rights. “I fear if we don’t, we will go down a path of servitude to a woke agenda.” “We in the legislature now have the opportunity to change the direction of higher ed, if we are willing to be courageous,” the bill’s sponsor, Sen. It also takes aim at university employees’ right to strike and collectively bargain over performance reviews, post-tenure review and tenure approval policies. The Higher Education Enhancement Act – Senate Bill 83 in one chamber and House Bill 151 in the other – seeks to crack down on what its sponsors have said is the favoring of diversity, equity and inclusion over promoting debate and differing viewpoints in public institutions of higher education. COLUMBUS, Ohio ( WCMH) – Hours after the House Higher Education Committee cut off opponent testimony against a bill overhauling state higher education, the Ohio Senate voted 21-10 Wednesday afternoon to approve its companion piece of legislation in the other chamber.
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