Posted on 11/04/2016 5:42:32 AM PDT by MichCapCon
The University of Michigan’s new chief diversity officer will collect $385,000 a year under his various job titles, including a new one created by a recently revealed $85 million, five-year U-M diversity plan.
Robert Sellers’ appointment to a new position called “vice provost for equity and inclusion and chief diversity officer” (VPEI-CDO) was approved Oct. 20 by the university’s governing board. Sellers previously served as “vice provost for equity and inclusion,” and is also listed as a professor of both psychology and education. In 2014-15 Sellers was paid $347,295 in his capacity as vice provost, a position created in 2014.
President Mark Schlissel nominated Sellers for the job several weeks ago. The new full-time administrative position “will serve as a leadership voice on diversity, equity and inclusion for the entire university.”
The diversity plan Sellers will oversee will spend $17 million a year over the next five years. It seeks to “recruit, retain and develop a diverse university community” and “support innovation and inclusive scholarship and teaching” through a number of new and expanded programs.
The $85 million plan is in addition to the $40 million a year the university already spends promoting diversity.
Earlier this year, university officials increased tuition by 3.9 percent for in-state undergraduates on the Ann Arbor campus.
“This new position expands upon the existing Vice Provost for Equity, Inclusion, and Academic Affairs role to establish an elevated and expanded leadership function charged with guiding and supporting the community’s progress in this critical domain across all segments of the institution,” the plan says.
As a U-M graduate student in 1987, Sellers was a member of the progressive group United Coalition Against Racism (UCAR), which protested the university’s graduation commencement speaker, CBS journalist and alumnus Mike Wallace, claiming that in the past he made racist statements.
The university recently announced a new online student portal where individuals can report their preferred gender pronouns so faculty and staff can use these them when addressing each student.
Tuition right?
“Diversity” is not a value. In fact, in the hands of leftist nitwits it’s a vice.
Some will say that the University of Michigan, as a public institution, is different. Fine. That brings me to the second plank of the reform. No state or local government that pays employees or local officials above the federal pay cap should qualify for any federal funding of any kind whatsoever. I have no problem with a state or local government paying high salaries if they do it with their own money. (Local taxpayers may disagree, but that's their business, not mine.) But they all run on federal dollars.
I call the reform "socialism for the socialist sector."
Drain the swamp, cut off their funding.
Plus bennies and staffers. Might save the college a cool million to cut that position.
Insanity. The students will pay for this nonsense in more ways than one.
Dip$hit has to be worth 1M$ a year. Pay “it” more. Break the freaking bank!
Suppressing whites is costly!
Why sure! If anyone deserves to earn the maximum wage, it would be a university diversity officer!
How else can they donate to ‘rat candidates. The whole system is rigged around keeping the ruling elite in power and in the money.
Your point is well taken. The $385,000 position actually costs the university far more than that factoring in benefits, retirement and other employment related expenses. That position probably costs somewhere between $500K-$600K.
Precisely right. Its a political machine we’re talking about.
Diversity is not unifying, it is intentionally divisive.
Memo: don’t let anyone — including the government — tell you who are supposed to be, how you (as a member of your group) are supposed to think, etc.
one of 50 UNNECESSARY jobs driving the cost of education.
This strikes me as quite similar to the changes that swept through German universities and colleges in the 1930’s.
“Certain” kind of professors were driven from their position because of who they were.
“Certain” groups of students were no longer allowed to attend, and were then banned from their chosen professions.
“Certain” kinds of speech were cause for dismissal of professors and/or students.
“Diversity” meant total adherence to the tenets and mores of governmental dictates.
Now, just how did that work out? Anyone out there remember?
Is this how far we have sunk? We’re gonna find out PDQ
U of M is in Ann Arbor. MSU is in East Lansing. As a conservative student there, I was in a very small minority.
Here are some examples: Look for directives to the staff on diversity. Maybe even setting up a diversity council made up of student and faculty volunteers. Maybe spin up a diversity newsletter to be emailed to students and staff. Maybe a website linked into the main University one. Look for a couple of diversity events for the student body. Maybe even a diversity day or some such where they invite various groups to come in and set up booths to speak about their cause/issue/demographic. Ultimately look for edicts on required diversity training for faculty. Maybe even input on hiring policy and student application acceptance... There see, 5 minutes of thought and typing and I've got his first 6 months of work done. I could spend a few hours fleshing out these boiler plate tried-n-true BS things, adapting them to the University. Like I said, a week tops.
The position is utterly predictable and worthless. They don't really want or need it, what they want is simply the appearance. They want to be able to point to someone and say "why yes, we actively promote diversity, just look at our guy over there and his staff..." As with so many other libtard things, it is all about appearances, not actual results.
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