Opinion sent to local university newspaper objecting to an utter travesty of a bill introduced in the Iowa senate.
A bill was recently introduced in the Iowa senate that has the distinct possibility of obliterating the quality of higher education offered within the state. Senate file 288 introduced by Senator Chelgren that reads as follows.
“Require partisan balance of the faculty employed at each of the institutions of higher learning governed by the board. A persona shall not be hired as a professor or instructor member of the facility at such an institution if he person’s political party affiliation on the date of hire would