Faculty Members at Youngstown State U. in Ohio Fight to Restore DEI Policies
“The group last week reported it has filed more than 4,500 voter signatures to the secretary of state and attorney general.”
People on the left know that DEI policies are part of their political power structure. That’s what this is about.
The college Fix reports:
Ohio faculty union advances ballot referendum to restore DEI in higher ed
Faculty affiliated with the Ohio Education Association at Youngstown State University are leading a referendum campaign to repeal Senate Bill 1, a new law that bans public university diversity, equity, and inclusion programming and outlaws faculty strikes.
The referendum seeks to suspend the law pending a potential statewide vote. If successful, Ohio voters could be asked to decide the law’s future in the coming election cycle. As it stands, the law takes effect June 25.
The group last week reported it has filed more than 4,500 voter signatures to the secretary of state and attorney general.
“Now we wait up to 10 business days to see what the SoS and AG say,” it stated on its Facebook page. “If they reject it, we revise and resubmit 1000+ signatures. This is what we anticipate happening, even if we submitted something flawless. If they accept it, we get more time to collect the 250K+ signatures across the state. Onward!”
A spokesperson for the Secretary of State’s Office confirmed receiving the signatures and posted a copy of the repeal petition on its website, saying a response is due by May 5, the Signal Cleveland reported.
In an emailed statement to The College Fix, Ohio Education Association Vice President Jeff Wensing called SB 1 “a devastating law.” He said it “guts workers’ rights and silences free thought, free speech, and free enterprise.”
“Tens of thousands of students, community members, and educators mobilized to try to stop the passage of SB 1,” Wensing said. “Our opposition did not end when the bill was signed into law. Students and educators remain engaged and united in their opposition to SB 1 and similar measures before the Ohio General Assembly.”
The new law, which passed thanks to a GOP supermajority in both the state House and Senate, requires universities maintain institutional neutrality, enacts tenure review, and bans DEI statements for admissions, hiring and promotion decisions.
It also requires classes to “demonstrate intellectual diversity” for approval, as well as to be included in universities’ general education requirements.
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it never goes away unless affiraction is 1000% dismantled
not going to happen
True, they won’t be reformed and stop their activism, so they have to be beaten. And they still won’t stop, so they have to be beaten over and over again, maybe forever, but anyway for a long time.
Someone should file a bill to complete defund the university because it is an irredeemable racist institution.
Hmmm….let’s everyone get together and sign a petition for a law saying we all want to harangued and called racists and haters and be told that every that exists is due to either being a victim or having a privilege.
Nah.
Dems will vote in the off-year election. Will Reps?
Since most of SB1 is simply a restatement of the Federal Civil Rights Acts, not sure how much effect repeal of SB1 would have.