Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that establishes new academic rules and restrictions regarding classroom bias, mandatory diversity training, and faculty strikes.

Highlights:

• Establishes an annual meeting for chancellors to deliver educational programs to the board of trustees for public higher education institutions (Sec. 3333.045).

• Requires each state institution of higher education implement the following into their mission statement (Sec. 3345.0216):

• The institution declares it will educate students by means of free, open, and rigorous intellectual inquiry to seek truth; and

• The institution has a duty to equip students with the opportunity to develop intellectual skills they need to reach their own informed conclusions; and

• The institution declares that its duty is to ensure that it does not prohibit speech or lawful assembly; and

• The institution declares it is committed to create a community dedicated to free and civil inquiry; and

• The institution declares that it has a duty to treat all faculty, staff, and students as individuals and treat them equally.

• Prohibits state higher education institutions from delivering any mandatory programs regarding diversity, equity, and inclusion (Sec. 3345.0217).

• Requires professor evaluations include questions about the professor creation of a bias free environment (Sec. 3345.451).

• Prohibits public employees from participating in strikes (Sec. 4117.14).

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