Ohio University will close the Pride Center, the Women's Center and the Multicultural Center in response to a new higher education law banning diversity efforts that takes effect this summer, the university president announced Tuesday.
OU will sunset the Division of Diversity and Inclusion — which includes those three centers — "over the next several weeks," said Ohio University President Lori Stewart Gonzalez in the press release.
There is no definitive date for when the division or the centers will close, but the centers will not be open beyond when the law takes effect on June 23, according to university spokesperson Dan Pittman. State Sen. Jerry Cirino, (R-Kirtland), introduced Senate Bill 1 at the end of January; it quickly passed both chambers and Gov. Mike DeWine signed it into law March 28. Youngstown State University faculty are trying to get a referendum on the November ballot to block S.B. 1. The law affects the policies and procedures implemented within Ohio’s public universities and community colleges.
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