As a professor friend once quipped, "The reason the infighting is so bad in academia is because the stakes are so low."
That was then--the 90s. Now, some DEI tsars are getting paid to be fascist dictators.
Top DEI staff at public universities pocket massive salaries as experts question motives of initiatives
A review of salary data shows that the universities of Michigan, Maryland, Virginia and Illinois, plus Virginia Tech, boast some of the highest-paid DEI staffers at public universities, a Fox News review found. These institutions' top diversity employees earn salaries ranging from $329,000 to $430,000 – vastly eclipsing the average pay for the schools' full-time tenured professors.
That's called Sayre's Law.