
Once passed, the legislation would “establish and implement intellectual diversity rubrics for course approval, approval of courses to satisfy general education requirements, student course evaluations, common reading programs, annual reviews, strategic goals for each department, and student learning outcomes.” Intellectual diversity sits at the heart of SB-83. Yet, as good teachers can attest, nothing is ever that simple.
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“It ensures free expression on campus and in the classroom at Ohio’s public universities and colleges.”

The purpose of Senate Bill 83 is “quite simple,” Cirino argues. Indeed, this bill seems explicitly designed to further cut the ground from under teachers already facing innumerable challenges as they try to create spaces where actual learning can happen. What is evident in this bill is that its supporters either don’t know or don’t care about what actually happens in our college and university classrooms. Jerry Cirino: Ignore 'hysteria.' Freedoms attack on Ohio campuses. If professors are concerned, he adds, it’s likely because “they’re not good at what they do.” Bill designed to cut the ground from under teachersĪs teachers read through this misguided projectile headed at higher ed institutions, many of us have the same thoughts about the senator. Jerry Cirino, R-Kirtland, the author of Senate Bill 83 promises. “Good” faculty should have nothing to worry about, Sen.


Steven Volk is emeritus professor of History at Oberlin College.
