Ohio private universities could lose scholarship money if they keep DEI programs

“AICUO is disappointed that Ohio House leadership is telling Ohio’s best and brightest students that their only choice for higher education will be a public university by placing unrealistic burdens for participation on Ohio’s independent colleges."
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Ohio private colleges may soon be subject to higher ed overhaul provisions

“There is the appearance of an exemption for religious practice, but it’s religious practice as judged by the Chancellor (of the Ohio Department of Higher Education), and so the Chancellor is going to have to be in the business of deciding every syllabus, does it comply with a sincerely held religious belief?”
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Ohio House budget requires private colleges comply with diversity ban to be eligible for scholarship

“It is really about creating such burdens on private colleges, on nonprofit private colleges, that there would be no interest left in participating in the (Governor’s Merit Scholarship). Why does Ohio — a state that has a desperate workforce need, that has a population problem where people are not moving here and our young people are moving away — why in the world are we quibbling for a few $1,000 to students that can get to stay here and provide for our workforce that leads to jobs?”
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Advocates Shift Focus To Senate For Budget Requests

"They are being asked to choose between two disastrous choices: exclude themselves from a valuable scholarship program to the detriment of their students or accept unfunded, costly state mandates that risk their missions and continued existence."
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Ohio House budget could force private colleges to follow rules similar to those in anti-DEI education bill

"If the state can bully nonprofit private corporations that do higher ed, they could do the same for any corporation in this state.”
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What challenges are Ohio colleges and universities encountering?

“Some institutions create new graduate programs that are in high demand, or they create undergraduate programs that gain national recognition. Or they start new undergraduate programs that are seen as being important and that attract more students and allow you to fight off the difficulties of demographic demand or the demographic decline.”
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From 2024

Cleveland State University to offer buyouts to faculty and staff

"In the state of Ohio, traditional students, those 18-24, have been declining since about the 2010s."
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Student concerns over future of their college

"The answer is they carry out their mission and they do so with a smaller or larger group of students, and I think that will be the great adjustment, so to speak, and people will be changing how their colleges operate and focus on what make them strongest."
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Ohio universities are cutting programs - why?

“Institutions must meet students where they are in terms of interests.”
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Ohio universities keep cutting programs - what's the deal?

“Really what is transpiring is students are interested in different academic programs than they were in the past.”
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