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Five DEI officers have resigned from this university within span of a year
College Fix ^ | DECEMBER 15, 2023

Posted on 12/17/2023 8:12:27 AM PST by george76

A parade of diversity, equity, and inclusion officers have departed Quinnipiac University within the past year.

A total of five diversity officials have resigned from the Connecticut-based university within an 11-month span

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Wayne Gersie, vice president of equity and inclusion, announced he will leave his position and return to his former post at Michigan Technological University, citing “personal reasons,”

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Gersie’s departure came after only five months on the job.

“Four other diversity and inclusion administrators have resigned in the past year,”..

Dennis Kwarteng, Quinnipiac’s former Title IX coordinator, left Quinnipiac in January. Gersie’s predecessor, Don Sawyer, departed Quinnipiac in June. Daymyen Layne, the former director of multicultural education and training, departed in June as well. And Veronica Jacobs, the current associate director of multicultural education and training, announced her resignation on Dec. 1.”

President Judy Olian assured the campus there is no cause for alarm.

“While there may appear to be several shifts in reporting roles, nothing has changed about our unwavering commitment to achieving the goals

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Diversity officers have come under political fire over accusations of promoting divisive ideologies and encouraging discriminatory policies in hiring and admissions.

On Wednesday, for example, the Oklahoma governor signed an executive order to slash higher education DEI programs.

Red states such as Texas and Florida have moved to dismantle DEI offices from their universities, with GOP leaders saying they do more harm than good.

Though diversity officers at public universities are at most risk of losing their jobs, those working for private universities have come under heightened scrutiny amid campus uproars over the Israel-Hamas War.

High-level donors such as billionaire financier Bill Ackman noted that DEI programs often exclude groups such as white men, Asians, and Jews, cutting against the notion that such initiatives foster an inclusive campus...

Quinnipiac spokesman Morgan told The Fix that the university will actually double-down on its DEI efforts by filling out an entire staff dedicated to helping “diverse” students.

Fryson “will prioritize building out the full team of the Office of Inclusive Excellence at Quinnipiac, including a new position we have added to increase retention of first-generation and diverse students. Once the complete equity and inclusion team has been assembled, the university will launch a search for a permanent vice president,” he said.

In 2014, The College Fix reported that Quinnipiac had raised tuition by $10,000 over a six-year span to $40,000. Today it comes in at $53,000.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Connecticut; US: Florida; US: North Carolina; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: academia; affirmativeaction; dei; die; diversity; education; equity; esg; inclusion; multiculturalism; quinnipiac; quinnipiacuniversity; woke; zampolits
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1 posted on 12/17/2023 8:12:27 AM PST by george76
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D-E-I must D-I-E


2 posted on 12/17/2023 8:14:48 AM PST by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding")
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DEI administrators must be dedicated to hating White people.


3 posted on 12/17/2023 8:19:43 AM PST by 1956tbyrd
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To: Eccl 10:2

5 resigned from 1 college. How many of these worthless positions do they have? Now multiply it by the number of colleges. Millions of dollars wasted on their salaries.


4 posted on 12/17/2023 8:20:10 AM PST by gibsonguy
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They will just be replaced by someone else.


5 posted on 12/17/2023 8:21:10 AM PST by uptowngirl
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***High-level donors such as billionaire financier Bill Ackman noted that DEI programs often exclude groups such as white men, Asians, and Jews, cutting against the notion that such initiatives foster an inclusive environment.***

What? nawwwww!

6 posted on 12/17/2023 8:21:50 AM PST by Right Brother (Pray for God's intervention to stop UMCRevMom's invasion of Free Republic)
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What exactly does a DEI officer do? What is in their job description?


7 posted on 12/17/2023 8:24:55 AM PST by The people have spoken (Proud member of Hillary's basket of deplorables)
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Perhaps the ones who quit were finding it to hard to find enough of the “right ethnicity” folks with at least some qualifications to enroll?


8 posted on 12/17/2023 8:25:31 AM PST by Mogger
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BTTT


9 posted on 12/17/2023 8:26:04 AM PST by nopardons
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Northwestern employs 1 administrator for every 2 undergrads... 400 new admin roles since 2013 while enrollment remained stagnant..

No wonder why tuition costs .. is high.

https://www.thecollegefix.com/northwestern-employs-1-administrator-for-every-2-undergrads/


10 posted on 12/17/2023 8:26:38 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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Too male and pale?


11 posted on 12/17/2023 8:29:27 AM PST by bigbob
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sounds like a good start. Now let’s see other “institutions of higher education” follow along.


12 posted on 12/17/2023 8:32:40 AM PST by wjr123 (Gaza)
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“...an entire staff dedicated to helping “diverse” students.”


“Diverse” meaning not white, of course. The NBA teams are ‘very diverse’ as was Mayor Wu’s ‘holiday’ party.


13 posted on 12/17/2023 8:36:02 AM PST by hanamizu ( )
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How many of these positions do they have?


14 posted on 12/17/2023 8:42:32 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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Officers of destruction


15 posted on 12/17/2023 8:44:49 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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Within the last year, my alma mater proudly informed alumni it was creating a new executive position - Vice President for DEI.

A couple weeks ago, alumni were informed that a new Masters Degree in DEI was being created.

This is a formerly religious affiliated university that required mandatory Chapel once a week in the 1960s.

As recently as 2004, the student body voted 60% to reelect George W. Bush.

Tragic. Breaks your heart. I stopped donating about 10 years ago, yet their endowment continues to grow.

Hopefully, that growth is based on foundation money and stock market performance - not alumni.

16 posted on 12/17/2023 8:46:01 AM PST by zeestephen (Trump "Lost" By 43,000 Votes - Spread Across Three States - GA, WI, AZ)
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They’re all diverse!


17 posted on 12/17/2023 8:46:43 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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“While there may appear to be several shifts in reporting roles, nothing has changed about our unwavering commitment to achieving the goals the destructive leftist agenda...”
18 posted on 12/17/2023 8:52:03 AM PST by Allegra (Less propaganda would be appreciated.)
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Unfair, illegal, hypocritical and certainly racist and sexist

DEI is nothing more than discrimination against Whites, and increasingly Asians and Jews to make way for White liberals placing Yes Men and Woman in positions that are neither not needed or for which the Affirmative Actions are incompetent.

It’s been going on for more than a half century and should have been put a stop to by Nixon and the courts before it got way out of hand and misnamed and abused into quotas

“Diversity” and “Inclusion” are nothing more than dog whistles to discriminate, and here we are decades later, with race relations near the bottom of the barrel

Shameful, and embarrassment of hypocrisy. Nobody owes anybody a damn thing Try working for it. Either roll up your sleeves and compete or get out of the way.


19 posted on 12/17/2023 8:53:17 AM PST by A_Former_Democrat (What does the Deep State have on Dims and RINOs? Demand release of all tax returns)
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Remember the Zampolits... socialist Soviet Union Political Officers... - Do not be the first to stop clapping.


20 posted on 12/17/2023 9:00:22 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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