Columbus dispatch obituaries august 20127/24/2023 The intent could not be clearer: the Senate GOP wishes to control higher education down to how topics can be discussed in the classroom, but it has no interest in adequately funding higher education.Īs many senators sit comfortably in their gerrymandered districts, they have no sense of accountability to the average Ohioan. This state budget is another that treats higher education as less than a priority, all while legislators speak effusively about workforce development. Senate Republicans are thus complicit in driving up costs for students – adding to the overhead of our universities at a time when less than a quarter of each tuition dollar goes to the direct cost of instruction. While this Senate Bill 83 language added to the budget bill imposes numerous new mandates on public colleges and universities, the Senate failed to provide commensurate funding for compliance. Good policy doesn’t get shoved into a 9000-page budget bill.īad policy – especially bad policy that attacks public services and public workers–often does, however, get buried in this way. What does it mean for education, taxes and other issues? Our view: Anti-American bills will enslave minds of Ohio students Maybe they don't care what Ohioans think. State Senate Republicans hope Ohioans won’t mind that their reckless and unpopular overhaul of higher education, Senate Bill 83, was amended into the Senate-passed version of the state’s operating budget bill. Gretchen McNamara is president of the Ohio Conference American Association of University Professors.
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