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Proposed legislation that would ostensibly revamp Ohio’s public higher education system is so highly contested that observers doubt it will pass anytime soon, even after repeated modifications. Ohio lawmakers have been wrangling since March over a highly contested higher education bill that would prohibit public colleges and universities from implementing diversity, equity and inclusion programs and remove job protections for tenured faculty members and staff, among other restrictive measures.

The bill that seeks to address what conservatives see as “cancel culture” and indoctrination at Ohio’s public colleges and universities is getting another makeover, with a ban on faculty strikes being taken out of it.

The bill that seeks to address what conservatives see as “cancel culture” at higher ed institutions is getting another makeover.

After a seven-hour hearing last Wednesday for controversial legislation to overhaul the college education system in Ohio, the bill sponsor agreed to make some changes and clarifications.

Concerned college students, worried university staff and outraged advocates packed the Ohio Statehouse Wednesday to speak against a massive higher education bill that would significantly change college campuses.