Posted on 08/30/2006 10:00:49 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau has just announced he's creating the new post of vice chancellor for equity and inclusion -- a job that not only has an impressive title, but an equally impressive salary of between $182,000 and $282,000 a year.
Plus an office budget in excess of $4 million.
The goal isn't so much to recruit more minorities but rather to ensure students, faculty and staff are "fully respected for their individuality and what they represent," Birgeneau said.
Birgeneau said the aim is "to prize our diversity and learn from it and to appreciate people for being part of the whole but also for what they as individuals bring to Berkeley."
The total $4.5 million budgeted for the new vice chancellor's office might just be the start because, according to spokeswoman Janet Gilmore, the university "hopes to increase substantially the funding available to further equity and inclusion initiatives through fundraising."
And while they hope to draw most of their workers from existing positions on campus, Gilmore said the new office "will require a few support staff for his or her office to assist with matters such as data analysis."
Just how many jobs the office will have, Gilmore said, hasn't been determined.
The creation of the new post comes at a time when the university system is already under fire over executive pay -- and for having so many high-level positions.
In this case, university officials were quick to note that they're not actually adding a new top-level post to the payroll. The opening became available when they merged two other vice chancellors positions into one.
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The result of conservatives not fighting the leftist "tolerance" agenda.
Seig Heil I guess.??
Let me clarify. Didnt the Nazis start with this kind of stuff?
Eliminating political correctness will not only save lives, but it will save money, too!
How many other BS positions are out there earning six figures?
I knew the original figure given was chump change.
I just scratch my head and wonder sometimes..........
I believe in tolerating homosexuals, let them live their life, don't discriminate against women or minorities, etc. but.......after so many years of affirmative action and changes in society, and obvious diversity in colleges already, why do you need an office of diversity? What purpose does this serve? Is this an effective way to spend taxpayers money?
They're not interesting in tolerance. They demand acceptance for anything and everything they do.
And no, it's not.
Colleges obviously have too much money...
As long as they're not white male heterosexual conservatives.
And people wonder why a college education costs more than it's worth.
Same question: How many Human Resource directors are out there?
I don't think these people are earning their money for doing whatever it is that the job description requires.
I think they're getting the money in return for homosexual favors granted to the person who hires them.
........yup....... and I'll bet good money that the person that gets that job will be somwhat along the lines of a minority lesbian female with a hyphenated Hispanic last name, who uses a wheelchair, and who is a card-carrying member of the Democrap party.... .. any takers...???
Even more so.
It puts a fellow traveler on the payroll.
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