Ohio higher-ed bill would require instructors to teach 'both sides' on climate change

[RandySF]

Ohio college and university instructors could be barred from teaching climate science without also including false or misleading counterpoints under a sprawling higher education bill that received its first hearing last week.

Senate Bill 83, or the Higher Education Enhancement Act, seeks to police classroom speech on a wide range of topics, including climate change, abortion, immigration, and diversity, equity and inclusion — all of which would be labeled “controversial.”

On these and other subjects, public colleges and universities would need to guarantee that faculty and staff will “encourage and allow students to reach their own conclusions” and “not seek to inculcate any social, political, or religious point of view.”

Colleges and universities that receive any state funding would be barred from requiring diversity, equity and inclusion training and have to make a commitment to “intellectual diversity” that includes “divergent and opposing perspectives on an extensive range of public policy issues.”


https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2023/03/27/ohio-higher-ed-bill-would-require-instructors-to-teach-both-sides-on-climate-change/

[jimfields33]

1. I bet most schools will turn down the state money

They have plenty in endowments. You’ll begin to see colleges tell the state, “keep your money.”

[Midnight Writer]

2. "not seek to inculcate any factual point of view." There. Fixed it for them.

[Freethinker65]

3. Go Blue. Another reason to go to Michigan for your higher education!

Honestly, why are Red States intent on ruining their public universities? They make so much more money by charging out of State tuition, but no one is going to want to attend from out of State if the schools demand academically ignorant State legislators get to set the curriculum and choose the courses and professors.

Public Universities I have attended in "Blue" States have always encouraged critical thinking, but I would be livid if my tuition for a semester science course was wasted on hours dedicated to anti-science nonsense.

[sakabatou]

4. Both-siderism in science? WTF?

[Irish_Dem]

5. Once politicians tell PhDs how and what to teach, and how to do research,

higher ed is dead.

Ohio State is the 3rd largest employer in the state of Ohio.
Maybe politicians will listen to them.