Noted: A number of the day’s bills were directed specifically toward the operations of the University of Wisconsin and state technical college systems.
Those bills that passed include:
- Requiring the UW System in some circumstances to give refunds to students with housing and meal plan contracts who are unable to access those benefits;
- Removing immunity for campus administrators for violating the expressive rights of a person on a UW or technical college campus;
- Allowing public college students to take a class on the U.S. Constitution to fulfill diversity and ethnic studies requirements;
- Banning teaching of race or sex stereotyping in the state’s public colleges, including “that an individual, by virtue of the individual’s race or sex, bears responsibility for acts committed; in the past by other individuals of the same race or sex.”