Key Components of the Bill

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• Diversity programming must address intellectual diversity as well as cultural diversity.
• Institutions must create a discipline policy to address faculty members who substantially disrupt protected expressive activities.
• Employment, promotion, and tenure depend upon meeting criteria related to free speech, free inquiry, and intellectual diversity. In addition, disciplinary procedures may be initiated if these same criteria are not met.
• Mandates a five-year review of professors’ performance.
• Requires that a procedure by which students and employees can file complaints if standards regarding free inquiry, free expression, and intellectual diversity are not met.
• Prohibits the requirement that staff, faculty, and contractors must pledge support for any policies or ideological movements. Diversity, equity, and inclusion statements are no longer permitted.
• New student orientations must include language about intellectual diversity.
• Colleges and universities must craft a neutrality statement that distinguishes the ideas of faculty, staff, contractors, and students from the official institutional standpoint.
• Gives permission to the Commission of Higher ºÚÂí´ÅÁ¦ to conduct a survey, promoted by the college or university, to measure students’ perception of free speech and academic freedom.