In May 2022, the California Community Colleges Board of Governors approved diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) regulations requiring all community college professors to incorporate politicized DEIA concepts in the classroom.
The Ohio legislature is considering a bill that threatens academic freedom with provisions that constitute curricular bans as well as language that would diminish academic freedom and First Amendment protections.
The troubling decision says faculty speech about institutional governance doesn’t get First Amendment protection, giving public universities broad power to oust faculty whistleblowers, dissenters.
