Has anyone else noticed that by far the least diverse positions are those in charge of diversity? I doubt there is a single white male in the group.
Posted on 05/02/2024 6:19:16 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Stanford University, its campus lined with redwoods and eucalyptus trees, has long been known as a hub for innovation and entrepreneurship. But in recent years, another ideological force has taken root: “diversity, equity, and inclusion,” a euphemism for left-wing racialism. DEI, in fact, has conquered Stanford.
I have obtained exclusive analysis from inside Stanford outlining the incredible size and scope of the university’s DEI bureaucracy. According to this analysis, Stanford employs at least 177 full-time DEI bureaucrats, spread throughout the university’s various divisions and departments.
Stanford’s DEI mandate is the same as those of other universities: advance the principles of left-wing racialism, hire faculty and admit students according to identity, and suppress dissent on campus under the guise of fostering a “culture of inclusion” and “protected identity harm reporting.”
Julia Steinberg, an undergraduate and journalist at the Stanford Review, believes that DEI is a “black box” system of rewards and punishments for enforcing ideological adherence. “I’ve observed as students are reported by their peers for constitutionally protected speech,” and professors are denounced and accused of discrimination by other students “for the crime of not being PC enough in their research or in class,” she says. “Who fits or doesn’t fit into the DEI caste system determines a student or professor’s summary judgement.”
DEI’s growth at Stanford has been fast. In 2021, the Heritage Foundation counted 80 DEI officials at the university. That number has more than doubled since then.
Sophie Fujiwara, a recent graduate, explains that DEI has become “unavoidable” for students, with “mandatory classes” and “university-sponsored activities.” Left-wing students increasingly believed that this wasn’t enough. Following the George Floyd revolution of 2020, these students “demanded more initiatives and funding from the university for DEI-related subjects.”
Stanford’s DEI initiatives are not limited to humanities departments or race and gender studies. The highest concentration is in Stanford’s medical school, which has at least 46 diversity officials. A central DEI administration is led by chief DEI officer Joyce Sackey, with sub-departments throughout the medical school. Pediatrics, biosciences, and other specialties all have their own commissars embedded in the structure.
In the sciences, DEI policies have advocated explicit race and sex discrimination in pursuit of “diversity.” The physics department, for example, has committed to a DEI plan with a mandate to “increase the diversity of the physics faculty,” which, in practice, means reducing the number of white and Asian men. Administrators are told to boost the representation of “underrepresented groups,” or “URGs,” through a variety of discriminatory programs and filters.
Ivan Marinovic, a professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, says that DEI programs have had a disastrous impact on campus. He describes DEI as a “Trojan horse ideology” that undermines “equality before the law, freedom of expression, and due process.”
Given Stanford’s current trajectory, DEI will likely keep growing. At each step, it will degrade the quality of scholarship and academic rigor. The question is whether dissenters—professors, students, and alumni who reject the ideological capture of the university—will have enough power to dislodge more than 100 full-time bureaucrats. Stanford’s new interim president, Richard Saller, was hired in part to moderate ideological influence on campus. But according to sources familiar with Saller in his previous role as dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences, he probably lacks the strength to push back against DEI.
The fight ahead will be tough. As it has been before, Stanford may once again serve as a leading indicator of where American higher education is going.
Most universities have been taken over by marxists. They are destroying their credibility and don’t seem to care much. Some people just want to watch things burn.
Colleges are Left wing activist democrat institutions that want America destroyed.
And people wonder why “education” is so expensive..............
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DEI-Deranged Evil Individuals have taken over Stanford with their $chemes.
The big cotton balls on the plantation that indoctrinates the little cotton balls.
“… Stanford employs at least 177 full-time DEI bureaucrats, spread throughout the university’s…”
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These parasites join the much more numerous highly paid parasites doing such things as “gender studies” and “queer studies”. Tuition is so much higher now to support such actually useless positions. Such parasitic positions now fill much of today’s corporate governmental offices.
Stahn-Fraud strikes again
What a brilliant and successful takeover by the left. How did it happen, stealthily under the cover of darkness or by sleight of hand right before our eyes?
Has anyone else noticed that by far the least diverse positions are those in charge of diversity? I doubt there is a single white male in the group.
Yeah, she’s sitting pretty, but wait til they find Sackey’s plagiarism.
“What a brilliant and successful takeover by the left. How did it happen, stealthily under the cover of darkness or by sleight of hand right before our eyes?”
The single impetus behind their success is the widely publically acceptance lie that all races (and genders) are the same.
The argument goes, if all races are the same then how come there are so few black doctors and physicists? Must be discrimation and we must fix that!
Publicly, almost everyone, including so called conservatives, repeat the lie, lest they be tarred and feathered as racists. Privately few people (ESPECIALLY LIBERAL LEFTISTS) believe it. But they promote it because it reinforces their oppressor-oppressed world view which it’s their ticket to power.
Their biggest weapon by far is the single word “racist” and the fear it causes conservatives to be labeled that.
Until our side learns to EMBRACE THE INSULT and goes on the offensive, instead of scurriling under a rock at the mere thought of being labeled so, we are screwed.
Call Congress
(202) 224-3121
U.S. House switchboard operator
Mention state and zip to get connected.
Message: No DOE tax dollars, grants, subsidies or funding for colleges that force-feed DEI ideology.
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Private school too, so no excuse for it. I guess their trustees love wasting money!
Herbert Hoover's alma mater.
All those years ago, turned out old Joe McCarthy was right after all.
DEI-Deranged Evil Individuals have taken over $tanford with their $chemes.
177 DEI officers. They used to call those people “Zampolit” in the Soviet military units. Only thing that’s changed since then is they’re here and in our face about it.
AcaDUMBia has jumped the shark.
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