Students from Ohio's public universities voiced concerns this week as the Senate added a controversial higher education bill to its state budget.
As the Ohio Senate met Thursday to approve its version of the state's biennial budget, a few dozen college students denounced a hotly debated higher education bill that Republican lawmakers added to its legislation.
Four students, dressed in black and white graduation robes to emphasize what they say will be the death of higher education, sat silently in the Senate chambers. Some of those students also showed up to the Senate’s hearing Wednesday afternoon on the state budget with duct tape over their mouths and battery-operated candles in hand.As a history education student at Ohio State University, Tori Haller said SB 83 is relevant and personal to her. Haller said she's been concerned from the bill's introduction and, after reading the bill in its entirety, attended a six-hour Senate committee meeting to voice her concerns.
Haller agreed that, as an educator, no student should be shouted down in the classroom, but she took issue with not being able to correct Holocaust deniers.Brielle Shorter, a rising Ohio State sophomore studying psychology, said she initially considered going out of state for college but later changed her mind after being accepted to the Morrill Scholarship Program. Now, with SB 83, she worries she made the wrong decision.
As initially introduced, the bill proposed a slew of wide-ranging changes, including rules aimed at ending mandated diversity trainings, bans on partnerships with Chinese institutions, prohibitions on faculty unions striking during contract negotiations, and new evaluations for students to rate professors on how well they've removed bias from their classrooms.
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