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Senate Bill 83 and Senate Bill 117 were added to the Senate’s version of the budget, which passed with a party line vote

A massive higher education overhaul is one step closer to happening as the Ohio Senate voted to pass their budget Thursday.

The Senate’s version of Ohio’s two-year operating budget restores some of the funding Gov. Mike DeWine originally proposed to a grant program that helps college students who have the highest level of financial need.

Senate Bill 117 would create the Salmon P. Chase Center for Civics, Culture, and Society at Ohio State University and the Institute of American Constitutional Thought and Leadership at the University of Toledo’s College of Law.

One student called the proposed center “a subtraction from our current law school” & said other students have ruled out UT because of the bill

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“This is going to teach us indoctrination of conservative, Christian nationalist interpretations of our Constitution,” one critic said.

Senate Bill 117 would create the Salmon P. Chase Center for Civics, Culture, and Society at Ohio State University and the Institute of American Constitutional Thought and Leadership at the University of Toledo’s College of Law

Letter from YSU Interim President Dr. Helen K. Lafferty and the Inter-University Council of Ohio regarding Ohio Senate Bill 83.

Republican sponsor says centers would be antidote to ‘predominantly liberal’ college faculty