Ohio bill would require colleges adopt racial, religious, ethnic harassment and intimidation policy

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“House Bill 606 is a comprehensive effort to address the alarming rise in racial, religious, and ethnically charged acts of harassment and intimidation on our college campuses,” Jarrells said in his testimony. Eliana Goldner, a junior at Ohio State University, explained to the Ohio House Finance Committee how this bill would help her.

“As a college student, the knowledge that my institution’s administration, faculty, and staff will be trained to handle incidents of hate and harassment makes me feel significantly safer,” Goldner said. “Our universities are committed to fostering a safe, inclusive, and respectful educational environment for all students and IUC believes that HB 606 provides a framework to help all institutions of higher education in Ohio achieve this,” Nick Derksen, IUC’s vice president of government relations, testified.

The Campus would require the Chancellor of Higher Education to create a committee to prevent antisemitism and other forms of racial, religious and ethnic harassment and intimidation by creating a model policy, guidance and recommendations for further action for policies for public and private universities. They would issue a report with their recommendations to the governor by July 1.

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