Posted on 05/21/2024 12:20:13 PM PDT by CFW
The University of North Carolina’s 16 campuses spend no less than $90 million per year in pay and benefits on no fewer than 686 staffers under the “diversity, equity and inclusion” (DEI) umbrella.
On Wednesday, the system’s governing board may end the controversial program that institutionalizes bias and prejudice based on neo-Marxist principles and falsehoods.
Our audit team at OpenTheBooks.com reviewed official university payrolls after filing records requests and searched university websites for DEI committees and their membership lists. Here’s how the UNC program breaks down:
288 are employed in DEI-related roles listed on the UNC system’s payroll.
Another 398 people were found to hold DEI-related roles not shown in the payroll records. Found on university websites, these employees are members of DEI committees, commissions and councils.
An additional 80 students were appointed to mostly volunteer DEI roles.
Another 66 employees are listed on the university websites for DEI committees but don’t appear in the university payroll – likely meaning the websites are out of date.
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UNC has paid DEI employees very well. Just how well is still shrouded and not disclosed by the system…
In likely violation of North Carolina’s freedom of information laws, UNC has not acknowledged our April public records request for all university payroll to include all cash compensation (salaries, bonuses, other pay, benefits, etc.). UNC was required to respond, “as promptly as possible.”
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UNC appears to be joining a group of schools that repudiate the institutionalized bias of “DEI.”
The UNC Board of Governors oversees the entire UNC system. It is expected to vote on a measure this week that would reverse and replace its DEI policy.
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Just look how cynical our society has become when it comes to government and institutional spending. A million here, a few billion there, soon it adds up to trillions and no one blinks an eye.
If you could do one thing to improve the cost of universities without sacrificing ANYTHING of value, this would be it.
Stuff like this makes me realize - American government at all levels needs bankruptcy/insolvency before any real political change can be made.
It will be impossible otherwise because there are too many vested interests within woke government and the deep state borrow-print-spend model we presently are under.
There are approx 240K students in the UNC system.
$90 million per year is $400 for each student.
It would be interesting to know how this cancer was entered into the university system and spread throughout. It must have been in place for several years and has contaminated the university and someone or someones should be named, publicized and held accountable.
Funded by taxpayers through student debt forgiveness.
That’s 128k per didn’t earn it!!
OK, well that and get rid of the athletics departments, too.
Colleges are little more than jobs programs for the idiots who graduate with “studies” degrees. They are totally worthless people who contribute nothing to society so the invent BS like DIE to keep them employed at the teet of taxpayers.
Follow Florida’s example.
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