Civics, Culture and Controversy as the Salmon P. Chase Center Prepares to Open in Fall

Ohio college civics centers get more power under Senate budget

The five university civics centers that Republican lawmakers created to combat what they say is a liberal bias on campuses would have more power and influence under the Ohio Senate’s proposed budget released this week.  Lawmakers used the last two-year budget to create these centers. They required the spaces to be added to the campuses of Cleveland State University, Miami University, Ohio State University, the University of Toledo and Wright Sta…

Civics, culture and controversy as the Salmon P. Chase Center prepares to open in fall

The Salmon P. Chase Center for Civics, Culture and Society is slated to open as Ohio State’s newest center in the upcoming fall semester, and its leader and other university officials have said it’s on track to do so.   “We have been building. I think we have momentum as we’re ending this semester, and then we’ll be ready to launch very strongly in the fall semester,” Lee Strang, the Chase Center’s executive director, said.   Strang said the int…