A proposal to massively overhaul higher education in Ohio has gotten a rewrite.
Sen. Jerry Cirino introduced another substitute bill for Senate Bill 83 last week in the Ohio House Higher Education Committee.
“Our goal was to try to accommodate as many objections as we could without sacrificing the core principles of the bill, certainly, which is to enhance higher education in Ohio,” Cirino said. and has had two House committee hearings. The bill has received lots of pushback from students and university staff, including more than seven hours of opponent testimony during a
The Ohio State University Association of University Professors has been outspoken against SB 83 since it was first introduced in March. Despite his fondness for the provision, Cirino said he removed it at the request from the House “in the interest of making an accommodation to get this legislation on the right track.”The bill has a new provision on retrenchment that would block unions from negotiating on tenure and it would allow universities to fire tenured professors for a broad list of reasons including reduction in student population. However, faculty with between 30 and 35 years of tenure would be protected.
Cirino was asked many times if this bill would weaken tenure, but he was very adamant that it would do no such thing. State Rep. Mary Lightbody, D-Westerville, asked Cirino what a faculty member would be able to do if a student was stating a false belief as if it were a fact.
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