The new frontier for regulating diversity and inclusion efforts in Ohio is university payroll

By: Chris Orban

Outlets: Ohio Capital Journal

Published: July 7, 2026

Words: 666

Last Updated: 2 weeks, 2 days ago

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For public university professors in Ohio, the year 2025 was dominated by three words: Senate Bill 1 (SB1).

Among other things, S.B. 1 created a mechanism to fire tenured professors who exhibit political bias in the classroom, and it included a list of “controversial subjects” that would need to be taught differently than other topics.

As a professor myself, it was far easier in 2025 to count the committee meetings that didn’t …

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