On October 16, 2025, Defending Education (DE) asked Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost to investigate required coursework at The Ohio State University (OSU). The coursework appears to violate both the spirit and the letter of S.B. 1, the Advance Ohio Higher Education Act, which bans DEI trainings at Ohio’s public colleges and universities and took effect on June 27, 2025. A whistleblower gave DE a screenshot showing that a “race, ethnicity, and gender diversity” requirement was still in OSU’s student registration portal as of October 14, 2025.
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