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NICOLE NOWICKI | FOR THE LANTERN
Senate Bill 83, also known as the “Higher Education Enhancement Act,” was recently altered in sections concerning the right to strike and student evaluations of professors.
NICOLE NOWICKI Lantern Reporter nowicki.51@osu.edu University staff would continue to have the right to strike while professors would not, with recent changes made to a controversial bill in Ohio’s legislature. Ohio Senate Bill 83, also known as the “Higher Education Enhancement Act,” aims to overhaul Ohio’s public universities with major reform
including limits to diversity training requirements, prohibiting the university from taking public positions on “controversial beliefs or policy” and requiring students to take three credit hours of American history or government. After passing the Ohio Senate on May 17 in a 21-10 vote, two major amendments including changes to the right to strike and students’ evaluations of professors were added. “It passed very handsomely in the Senate, and I’m sure it will do the
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same in the House,” the bill’s primary sponsor, Ohio Sen. Jerry Cirino, said. “It’s got a lot that is needed, I think, in terms of reforms in Ohio higher education.” The legislation was quickly met with criticism from many professors across Ohio’s universities and was condemned by the Ohio State Board of Trustees. Many students have also given testimony against the bill.
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