it works as good as the NEA and the DOE!!! wait, wut?
Posted on 08/23/2021 8:06:58 AM PDT by karpov
As Oscar Wilde tells us, “Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.” This is especially true of bureaucracies on college campuses. Once their seeds are planted, their growth often continues without check.
Administrative offices have been growing on college campuses since the 1980s, undoubtedly contributing to the increasing cost of a degree. Besides being expensive, administrative growth shifts resources away from education towards administrative programming. This threatens to undermine higher education’s central mission of teaching and research.
There has been particularly rapid growth over the past two decades in the area focused on the promotion of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) on college campuses.
Aside from real concerns about the politicized and divisive nature of DEI, there are serious questions about whether or not these initiatives are even fulfilling their purported purposes—namely, to make students feel more welcome on college campuses.
DEI programs and administrators, as a relatively new and growing development, are understudied from a performance perspective. How many people work in DEI? How successful are these initiatives at carrying out their goals? A new report by the Heritage Foundation, entitled Diversity University: DEI Bloat in the Academy, takes a close look at these questions. The report is authored by Jay P. Greene, senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, and James D. Paul, distinguished doctoral fellow at the University of Arkansas.
Since DEI is a relatively new phenomenon, there is not a comprehensive dataset of all DEI staff in American higher education. A major component of Greene and Paul’s report is developing this data set, which they then use to evaluate the efficacy of DEI initiatives.
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Offices = NASA
it works as good as the NEA and the DOE!!! wait, wut?
DEI do the following:
1) Make those who are not racists (most of) or misogynists or whatever -ists they they are trying to say we are feel extremely uncomfortable for being falselt accused.
2) Exacerbates the “otherness” of the -ists targets making the ones who would otherwise succeed feel they are all tokens and unable to compete or be judged on their own merits
3) Provide a spear and a shield for the underperformers to use when they just do not do the quantity and quality of work. Even a lazy straight white guy need only say he is latently bisexual and never even show one iota of interest to another guy and the red carpet of victimology is at his beck and call.
If the measure of their success is in getting fellow Leftists jobs that they wouldn’t ordinarily qualify for or be able to hold onto, then the answer is, Yes.
And of course, those very same offices are the proverbial, Point Man/Woman, when some type of action needs to be taken against the company, a boss, or a supervisor for not bowing down to an employees “protected status”. Regardless of whether or not the “protected status individual” did something wrong or wasn’t qualified for a promotion they wanted. Then the folks in the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Office, turn on the Bat-Signal for any of the law firms, ready to go to court and sue the pants off all parties involved.
As with pretty much everything with the Left they use the power of government and coercion to get jobs and in some cases, get rich.
Billions in Afghanistan for women studies and empowerment, sure. Find out who had those contracts and how much they were getting paid.
Yes for the worthless occupant!
If the goal is sloth, blame, division and dependence, then the handouts are achieving their goals.
No - see Afghanistan.
“ Do Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Offices Achieve Their Stated Goals?”
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Only if their goals are promoting racism and wasting money.
Then in that case, Yes.
If the goal is to divide and silence everyone, including the oppressed and victim classes, then yes.
This bs isn’t confined to just college campuses. It’s in the health care field too.
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