Remembering a talk by “executive information system” guru Allen Pallar. This was probably the late 80s and it was a federal IT conference. Pallar advice was something like “before you implement an executive information, eliminate all management whose job it is to pass information from below to above or above to below.”
I suggest that today in any bureaucracy we can go with everything after the comma in Pallar’s statement. Today, I believe we can see enormous productivity and quality improvements by eliminating the diversity bureaucracy.
Another shining example of those on the Left using the taxpayer to make a buck. If it weren’t for government/civil service jobs, most of them would not be able to make a living. There are only so many art gallery director positions in the country. And, while they get to looking at how bloated admin’s at colleges/universities, they might also want to turn their attention to the US Dept of State. How many Deputy Directors to the Assistant Deputy Director of Legislative Affairs in Southwest Africa do we need?
The old Ronald Reagan quote comes to mind here: “the first and last priority of the bureaucracy is to preserve and expand the bureaucracy.”
I read that piece by Phil Hamburger. He got right to the meat of the issue.
How many diversity offices does any college need? By the time you add up women, gender, all the ethnic groups, various international students offices, and LGBT, you can easily have 20-30 administrative departments, each with their own set of VP, director, asst. directors, on down the line. Everyone of them sucking up $$$$.
Dean of Diversity, Dean of Special Needs Students, Dean of Safe room Allocations, etc. All making 150K.
The bloating of the college administrations, is part of why tuition and fees have skyrocketed, far above the rate of inflation, in recent decades. Everyone who goes to college is paying for this.
I worked for a major corporation for 24 years. Over that time I saw the corp. management slowly change from being run by the founders, engineers all, to business management types. As the change happened, VPs multiplied rapidly.
We used to joke that there would soon be a VP in charge of the paper clip supply.
This is partially due to the “diversity” bloat. You need checkists / political officers to make sure every student group, department and class are in political compliance.
You need nannies to comfort the weak students who are offended by assigned ready by white guys and incredibly stressed out by tests. Train them to run to powerful diktats so they’ll think they’re too weak to do anything without permission of another government authority figure.