COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio college students and faculty are feeling the effects of a new, wide-ranging higher education law that bans diversity efforts, prohibits faculty strikes, and regulates classroom discussion.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed Ohio Senate Bill 1 into law on March 28 after it quickly passed the House and Senate earlier this year. S.B. 1 went into effect at the end of June, meaning this is the first fall semester under the new law.

The new law creates post-tenure reviews, puts diversity scholarships at risk, sets rules around classroom discussion, and creates a retrenchment provision that blocks unions from negotiating on tenure, among other things. The law affects Ohio's public universities and community colleges.

"The best way to describe it is everything, quite honestly,

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