Very, very common.
The frequent, “proper” and desired result of many of these Social Justice “protests” (and almost all of the enviro-sponsored EPA lawsuits nationally) is a mandated long-term “studies program” by the local “college” or university to “study the long-term effects of (fill in blank) on the regional (environment/local school/local district) to “prevent a re-occurrence”” of the original lawsuit.
Presto! Instant “mandated” employment for local professors and social justice warriors (with a convenient degree from the local college in social justice warfaring!
The way this works is that when you put in your grant, you pad it with 1) all your salary offsets, 2) every perk you can think of such as additional office space, research assistants, book budgets, and so on. Then the U adds its “overhead”. At UD that number was an astonishing 45%.
For what? Processing a few forms?
“study the long-term effects of (fill in blank) on the regional (environment/local school/local district) to “prevent a re-occurrence”” of the original lawsuit.”
So with crying and upset students, they’re on the way to getting a research grant in order to “study the long-term effects of (banana peels in trees) at (Ole Miss) in order to “prevent a re-occurrence”?