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After Iowa State syllabus controversy, legislation would make universities post course info online

Continuing fallout from an Iowa State University syllabus last fall barring students from choosing paper or project topics opposing things like gay marriage, abortion, and Black Lives Matter, lawmakers Monday advanced legislation requiring Iowa’s public universities publish all course syllabi online.House Study Bill 199 — which Rep. Dustin Hite, R-New Sharon, introduced and a House education subcommittee passed — adds to a growing catalog of proposed legislation this session aimed at addressing Republican concerns over free speech suppression at Iowa’s universities, particularly suppression of conservative voices.Lawmakers also have advanced a pair of widely-debated bills to make Iowa first in the nation to ban tenure, and another requiring universities poll and then report to the General Assembly the political affiliation of all of its tens of thousands of employees.

 

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