How did that ever get to be a job?
Really...
“Director of Inclusion and Multicultural Engagement
How did that ever get to be a job?”
Without the billions of dollars spent by the US Department of Education and other government agencies to support grants, research projects, and direct subsidies to colleges, research groups, and think tanks these jobs would not exist. Cut off the federal money spigot from the federal government and these jobs will be gone in 2-3 years.
This is what happens when you establish a budgeting process at the federal level creating a manipulated “baseline” automatically growing 7-8% per year and giving the executive branch huge discretionary spending authority. The first act the new Congress needs to do is redefine the “baseline” as the previous year’s budget, not the previous year plus a huge inflation factor. Redefining baseline to a true baseline will put an end to the semantic game played out in the media where a reduction in the growth of spending is defined as a draconian cut, not what it is.
The second thing Congress needs to do is reduce the size of the bureaucracy and its discretionary spending authority. Over the past 40 years corporate American has gone through waves of white collar downsizing. As a result administrative functions are more efficient than in the days of huge, multilayered bureaucracies. An immediate 10% across the board cut in the bureaucracy would initially elicit howls from the liberal press and constituency groups but within six months would be a non event.
The third thing is to eliminate the omnibus multiple department spending bills. Return to the process of reviewing each department’s spending and sending individual appropriation bills by department to the President for his signature or veto. If he vetoes the bill for the department, he is effectively eliminating it. Any spending the President wants that isn’t in the spending bills he can request in supplemental appropriation which should be debated in Congress and voted up or down.
Reinstate a rigorous budget and spending review process and the money for the community organizers will dry up. The woman in the article’s salary likely doesn’t appear in the federal budget as a line item but her position is only possible because the college is receiving millions of dollars in federal research grants and other subsidies. Take those away and the college will have to redefine its priorities and slash its own bureaucracy. If it is true to its mission academic teaching positions will be preserved and the multiple paper pushing activist “Director” jobs that have mushroomed on college campuses over the past 50 years will disappear. Who knows, universities might return to the days when tenured professors carried a full teaching load and academic deans were professors first and administrators second.
Does the Republican Congress have the backbone and desire to dial back the state with thousands of line item cuts to the federal budget? If not the parasite will continue to grow until it completely devours the private sector and collapses. At that point in time, diversity directors at colleges may quickly find they don’t have the life skills to survive.