*intro to article
Professors at Ohio’s only public historically Black university are worried a new controversial higher education law will have a chilling effect on their campus.
ohiocapitaljournal.com
04/24/25
Professors at Ohio’s only public historically Black university are worried a new controversial higher education law will have a chilling effect on their campus.
Members of Central State University American Association of University Professors chapter recently talked to the Ohio Capital Journal about their concerns with
Senate Bill 1, which is set to take effect at the end of June. Lawmakers quickly passed the bill and
Gov. Mike DeWine signed it into law on March 28.
The
new law will ban diversity efforts, prohibit faculty strikes, regulate classroom discussion of “controversial” topics, create post-tenure reviews, put diversity scholarships at risk, create a retrenchment provision that block unions from negotiating on tenure, shorten university board of trustees terms from nine years down to six years, and require students take an American history course, among other things