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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Graig Graziosi

A university made a MAGA congressman its president. Is it a sign of things to come in higher ed?

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In the heart of downtown Youngstown, Ohio, inside a conference room where the Youngstown State University board of trustees hold their meetings, a chorus of angry boos rang out when it was decided the college's next president would be an election-denying MAGA congressman.

With little forewarning, YSU's trustees selected Congressman Bill Johnson — one of five Ohio Republican congressmen to back a bogus Texas lawsuit seeking to invalidate millions of legitimate votes in the 2020 election — as the university's new president.

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