Despite protests, higher education reform bill passes Ohio Senate | Reporters Roundtable

Senate Bill 1, touted by supporters as a way to fight back against liberal indoctrination on college campuses, passed the senate 21-11 this week and is on its way to the Ohio House. It drew loads of opposition before the senate affirmed it. Among other things, it bans Diversity Equity and Inclusion efforts and forbids labor strikes by professors. Jim Tressel, the former football coach of Ohio State University and president of Youngstown State University is now the lieutenant governor of Ohio. Is it a temporary foray into state government, or will he seek to move up to governor next year? Lee Fisher, the former Ohio attorney general and lieutenant govenor, now serving as dean of the Cleveland State University College of Law, will become president of Baldwin Wallace University on July 1. And Jo-Ann, the craft-retailer based in Hudson, is shuttering most of its Ohio stores as it closes 500 locations across the country amid bankruptcy We will discuss the bill these stories and more on the Friday “Reporters Roundtable.”