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ICE isn’t invincible. ICE depends on private corporations, and universities have real leverage over those companies through purchasing, partnerships, and public legitimacy. That’s why the fastest way to shrink ICE’s capacity is to cut off its corporate support: push our schools to stop funding and normalizing ICE collaborators. Join AFT and AAUP for the Drop ICE mass call on Sunday February 15th at 7PM ET. Register with link in comments.

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5 significant ways that Senate Bill 1 in Ohio is changing the landscape of higher education in the state for the worse:

1️⃣Academic programs are being eliminated across the state

2️⃣DEI offices shut down and policies reworked

3️⃣The law has stirred concerns about a chilling effect on campus speech and academic freedom

4️⃣Faculty union powers have been profoundly curtailed

5️⃣Out-of-state universities are recruiting Ohio students affected by the changes

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Thanks American Association of University Professors for highlighting what is happening in our state:

5 significant ways that Senate Bill 1 in Ohio is changing the landscape of higher education in the state for the worse:
1️⃣Academic programs are being eliminated across the state
2️⃣DEI offices shut down and policies reworked
3️⃣The law has stirred concerns about a chilling effect on campus speech and academic freedom
4️⃣Faculty union powers have been profoundly curtailed
5️⃣Out-of-state universities are recruiting Ohio students affected by the changes
Full story at link in comments.

5 significant ways that Senate Bill 1 in Ohio is changing the landscape of higher education in the state for the worse:

1️⃣Academic programs are being eliminated across the state

2️⃣DEI offices shut down and policies reworked

3️⃣The law has stirred concerns about a chilling effect on campus speech and academic freedom

4️⃣Faculty union powers have been profoundly curtailed

5️⃣Out-of-state universities are recruiting Ohio students affected by the changes

Full story at link in comments.

"Ohio’s dwindling enrollment has little to do with marketing and campus tours and everything to do with values. And SB 1 sends exactly the wrong message to every student and scholar considering Ohio."

Read Atassi's column here: https://www.cleveland.com/opinion/2025/09/the-nerve-gov-dewine-wrecked-higher-ed-and-blames-the-tour-guides.html

GOOD NEWS from our Allies at OEA!

Judge Temporarily Blocks Law Removing Educators’ Voice on the STRS Board

Franklin County Court of Common Pleas Judge Andy Miller issued a major ruling to protect educators’ voice in the future of the State Teachers Retirement System by granting a temporary restraining order preventing the provisions in the state budget affecting the STRS Board makeup from taking effect until a preliminary injunction hearing is held. This ruling is in response to a lawsuit filed Wednesday by the Ohio Education Association (OEA), the Ohio Federation of Teachers (OFT), and the Ohio Conference AAUP of the American Association of University Professors.

Read the full press release on OEA's website 👀
https://www.ohea.org/judge-temporarily-blocks-law-removing-educators-voice-on-the-strs-board/

An important message from AAUP National:

The AAUP notes with great alarm the rash of recent administrative actions to discipline faculty, staff, and student speech in the aftermath of the murder of Charlie Kirk. We write to remind leaders of colleges and universities of their fundamental duty to protect academic freedom and the absolute necessity to ensure that the freedom to discuss topics of public import without constraint is not curtailed under political pressure. As established in the 1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure, faculty are entitled to hearings under long-standing principles before they may be subject to discipline. At a moment when higher education is threatened by forces that seek to destroy it and its role in a democratic society, the anticipatory obedience shown by this rush to judgment must be avoided. American Association of University Professors Ohio Conference AAUP

Labor rights are the backbone of the middle class. When workers have a voice on the job, families and communities thrive.

STRS Board was a victim of a hostile takeover. Teachers like me are at risk | Opinion A hostile takeover has gives partisan politicians control over $100 billion in STRS assets.

Is this union headed for a strike or a contract? High schoolers negotiate The Northeast Ohio Worker Center's High School Collective Bargaining Program teaches students how to negotiate union contracts.

Important message from our Ohio Conference AAUP:

The measly 2.8% SSI "increase" in state funding over the biennium will hardly cover SB 1 compliance, let alone allow institutions to deal with inflationary pressures, retain and hire faculty and staff, as well as keep tuition low for students.
We must ensure that institutions are developing policies on everything related to SB 1. Administrators cannot simply go around invoking SB 1 as they tear down posters from faculty doors, try to make faculty change their academic profiles, or require every institutional entity to make unnecessary changes to their mission statements.
The fights are now on our campuses, and we will be pushing back.

DEI offices shuttered, costs mount as Ohio universities comply with SB 1 Schools across the state are eliminating DEI offices, restructuring programs, and implementing new course requirements.