The Ohio Senate passed a sweeping higher education bill Wednesday afternoon that would ban diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, faculty strikes, and require professors to post syllabi online, among dozens of other requirements.

The vote to pass the anti-DEI higher ed bill came less than a day after hundreds of opponents testified at the Ohio Statehouse in a hearing that went more than eight hours.

A bill banning diversity, equity and inclusion programs at Ohio’s public colleges and universities has cleared the GOP-led Ohio Senate for the second time since 2023