Posted on 11/30/2020 3:50:40 AM PST by karpov
Higher ed leaders love committees and training sessions. The technocratic mind that rules campus sees a problem and usually decides that the solution is more resources and education. Once the money is spent and the trainings, workshops, and seminars are completed, then the problem is solved.
Since the police killing of George Floyd, colleges have issued apologetic statements about institutional racism and made grand resolutions to become “anti-racist.” It seems that spending on diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives will continue to rise as they have in recent years.
A Martin Center analysis has found that, at some of the largest UNC schools, money to outside organizations keeps flowing for diversity-related software and trainings.
In the past, colleges would hire diversity lecturers to give an hour-long speech here and there. Now, the trainings are more in-depth and expensive. North Carolina State University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, UNC-Wilmington, UNC-Greensboro, and East Carolina University have spent at least $276,090 since 2016 on third-party diversity programs, according to public records.
The question remains, however, of how much good they do. Diversity trainings may actually enhance politicization and racial bias on campus and teach moderate liberals and conservatives to keep their heads down—without benefiting minority students. The existing evidence on how effective diversity trainings are at reducing racism is not encouraging.
The largest spending has come from NC State: $129,800. In 2019, it signed a one-year contract with DiversityEDU for $15,800 for diversity training. Then, it committed to a $114,000, three-year contract with Everfi for student diversity training to cover 2020-2022.
UNC-Chapel Hill is close behind with $75,125 in third-party diversity contracts. The vast majority of them went to the Racial Equity Institute, an organization based in Greensboro that offers training to schools, businesses, and non-profit organizations.
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Because White people and heterosexuals must be smashed to pieces .
Because they can. If the voters of the state, through their elected representatives, choose to throw money at the university system, what can they do but spending it on promoting their ideology (and employing their friends and relatives)?
Because money is a non-issue with Leftist libtards especially when the money is not theirs but taxpayers monies, etc.?
1. Stupidity.
2. You have a real nice campus over there. Sure be unfortunate if something happened to it.
3. For a mere $10k payment of someone else’s money, I will give you a token you can waive when you are accused of being a racist, you racist.
I went to the University of Northern Colorado, so whenever I say UNC, I have to clarify: Northern Colorado, NOT North Carolina.
It started as lawsuit protection.
What do you mean by "work"?
What do you imagine the purpose of these struggle sessions to be?
Before you can judge if they are "working". you first have to figure out what they are trying to accomplish.
Seems to me they are serving the master's priorities very well.
Part reparations, part vote buying, part money laundering...any more questions?
The “diversity training institutions” are billion dollar industries that feed on themselves, growing more powerful.
I do not believe “diversity and inclusion” training works. They try to ferret out racism that doesn’t exist, and in fact increase it.
I’ve been forced to sit through these wretched things as a condition of employment and highly resent this waste of time and resources. I believe, from talking with my colleagues over the years, that these mandatory “trainings” increase hostility and resentment instead of smoothing out relations between the races.
Just my thoughts but I haven’t spoken to a single person yet that got anything out of these things and, in fact, was left angry and resentful after the training was over.
I grew up in NC and my sister went to UNC. I went to college at CU Boulder and of course when I learned that there was a UNC in CO I went...what?
People in NC call UNC “Carolina.” People in South Carolina call the University of SC “Carolina.” But they are heathens. ;-)
Diversity = perversity.
Almost everyone excepts, or at least tolerates, other people’s individuality ...as long as it doesn’t infringe on others.
Are there people who do not tolerate other reasonable people...yes...lefty loons.
Diversity training is just about “Shutup and do want we tell you!”
I miss Mike Adams.
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