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The Ohio State University Pours Millions Into DEI, Hosts Federally-Funded ‘Nonbinary’ Rock Climbing Program
Daily Caller News Foundation ^ | December 30, 2024 | Jaryn Crouson

Posted on 12/30/2024 8:27:05 AM PST by george76

The Ohio State University (OSU) spends over $13 million on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) staff and hosts a multitude of “radical left-wing” courses and programs

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The school spent $13.3 million in 2023 on salaries for its 201 DEI employees, which is the equivalent of the cost of tuition for over 1,000 students at OSU, Open The Books found. OSU also highlights gender and sexuality topics in several courses, such as “Sexualities and Citizenship” and “Queer Ecologies.”

OSU’s two highest-paid DEI officials both made nearly $300,000 in 2023, with 29 others making over 100,000, according to Open The Book’s report. Several employees are part of the “Diversity & Inclusion” or “Institutional Equity” offices, while others are professors within departments such as the “women’s gender and sexuality studies.”

DEI courses at the university dive into topics such as the “lesbian experience in the United States” and seek to “disrupt the gendered and heterosexual assumptions embedded in how we understand the environment, nature, and bodies,” the descriptions read.

“From animal studies, queer and feminist social movements for environmental justice, trans*natures, and sexual politics, Queer Ecologies will articulate a commitment to new thinking about the challenges of planetary and climate change,” one class promises.

Some DEI programs at OSU have been bankrolled by taxpayer funds, Open The Books found.

OSU has received over $3 billion in federal grants since 2020 to host programs such as the National Science Foundation for the Girls* on Rock, which aims to provide “16-18-year-old girls and nonbinary individuals with immersive, hands-on experiences in the geosciences, combined with elements of artistic expression and technical rock climbing in the Rocky Mountains, Colorado,” according to Open The Books. Another program explores “Vaccine Hesitancy” around Covid, one from the National Science Foundation looks at how to combat “misinformation during crises,” and another tackles “cultural resistance in the USA and Europe [that] impedes the acceptance of insect proteins as food sources.”

The university has also accepted $203.5 million in funding from foreign sources, including $15.8 million from China and $7.7 million from Saudi Arabian sources, according to Open The Books. Foreign nations, particularly China, have for years poured millions into American universities in order to influence what is being taught to students, increasing the likelihood of institutions silencing political speech that goes against their foreign donors.

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Several states have banned DEI in higher education, including Idaho, Texas and Florida, while some schools are considering shutting down their DEI offices over the programs’ failures. One report analyzing the University of Michigan’s inclusion program found that its DEI office failed to increase diversity in the school’s student body and inadvertently intensified racial relations on campus.


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KEYWORDS: affirmativeaction; dei; die; diversity; equity; ohio; ohiostate; osu; ripoff; scam; university; woke
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1 posted on 12/30/2024 8:27:05 AM PST by george76
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and inadvertently intensified racial relations on campus.


there is no inadvertently, it was intentional and it worked.


2 posted on 12/30/2024 8:30:04 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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“From animal studies, queer and feminist social movements for environmental justice, trans*natures, and sexual politics, Queer Ecologies will articulate a commitment to new thinking about the challenges of planetary and climate change,” one class promises.” Is that like buggery?


3 posted on 12/30/2024 8:31:46 AM PST by kawhill (Did they say why Willard? Are my methods unsound?)
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The school spent $13.3 million in 2023 on salaries for its 201 DEI employees,

Too many Chiefs and not enough Indians............

4 posted on 12/30/2024 8:32:10 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

AVERAGE of $66k


5 posted on 12/30/2024 8:37:11 AM PST by mykroar ("It's Not the Nature of the Evidence; It's the Seriousness of the Charge." - El Rushbo)
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To: george76

“inadvertently intensified racial relations on campus.”

“Inadvertently”??? What did they expect teaching racial hatred would do?


6 posted on 12/30/2024 8:37:18 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Marxism is a politics for the ugly, unwanted, uneducated, unhealthy, and insane.)
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To: george76

Men/Boys
Women/Girls
Mutants


7 posted on 12/30/2024 8:39:13 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: george76

Rockclimbing cannot be binary or non-binary. People ARE binary. All of them.


8 posted on 12/30/2024 8:47:22 AM PST by I want the USA back (Voltaire: To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.)
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To: george76

As a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, I really hated OSU, but they managed to add academics to football as a reason to hate them!


9 posted on 12/30/2024 8:51:23 AM PST by Redleg Duke (“Time to Play Cowboys and Snowflakes!”)
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To: george76

Return my tax dollars immediately.


10 posted on 12/30/2024 8:52:10 AM PST by bgill
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To: george76

And where exactly are there rocks to climb in the state of Ohio?


11 posted on 12/30/2024 8:52:44 AM PST by Mr. Mohasky (Common sense in a world lacking any, will be perceived & construed as an extreme point of view.)
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To: george76

This must put them at the top of America’s most racist universities.


12 posted on 12/30/2024 8:53:17 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (With a Congress that half of which is made up of foreigners and refugees, why do we need a U.N.?)
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Most universities should be understood as enemy occupied territory.

The new administration should give them the same treatment it gives Russia, China, North Korea, Iran and Venezuela.


13 posted on 12/30/2024 8:53:24 AM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
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To: george76

When will DEI be started in the NFL or HOCKEY?


14 posted on 12/30/2024 8:54:02 AM PST by Singermom (EE)
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To: I want the USA back

“never ever put a number one dispenser in a number two dispenser. bad things happen” L.Star


15 posted on 12/30/2024 8:55:19 AM PST by Qwapisking (Q: know the difference between a petulant 6 y.o. and a liberal? A:age. L.Star )
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Along with every Ivy League university.


16 posted on 12/30/2024 8:56:16 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Singermom

Hopefully never. Let’s not give them any ideas now.


17 posted on 12/30/2024 8:56:42 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: george76

Pull all their federal funding


18 posted on 12/30/2024 9:01:57 AM PST by laweeks (///)
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To: george76

It is all about the money. Any new trend to screw taxpayers out of subsidies. Climate change, DEI, Fear of Trump, any “gimmick” that will procure funds no matter how insane it might be.


19 posted on 12/30/2024 9:04:51 AM PST by Openurmind
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To: mykroar

If they put as much effort into education as they do about FOOTBALL they might have a better time recruiting good people..............


20 posted on 12/30/2024 9:10:22 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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