Posted on 01/13/2024 1:04:36 PM PST by george76
DEI commitment includes a recent $17 million faculty initiative, ‘identity centers,’ and more
Vanderbilt University employs more than one full-time administrator for every two students
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the private Nashville university employed 3,516 full-time administrators and support staff, according to information the school filed with the federal Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System.
Administrators and support staff include management, student and academic affairs divisions, IT, public relations, administrative support, maintenance, legal, and other non-academic departments.
In 2022, Vanderbilt’s reported full-time undergraduate student enrollment was 6,983. That amounts to 517 full-time administrators and support staff per 1,000 undergrads, or more than one for every two students.
Vanderbilt employed 1,149 teaching and instructional staff in 2021-22, meaning it offered 164 educators for every 1000 students.
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The bloated staff has been a major cause of skyrocketing tuition and student debt,
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there is an ongoing trend to spend more on administrators and less on teaching students.”
“Colleges shouldn’t be wasting money on highly paid administrators whose jobs have little to nothing to do with whether a student will get a good education and a good job upon graduating
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Northwestern University also employs more than one administrator for every two undergraduates, including several new DEI staff in its sports program.
Even more, an analysis conducted by The Fix in December on Youngstown State University in Ohio found that the ratio of administrators to students grew more than 13 percent over the past four years, even as full-time undergraduate enrollment fell almost 16 percent.
In its hiring, funding and self-promotion, Vanderbilt shows a strong commitment to DEI principles.
“Our commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) is woven into the very fabric of our work, our community, and our mission,” its website states.
In July, The Fix reported that Vanderbilt had launched a $17 million faculty DEI initiative to advance diversity.
The initiative, funded in part by the National Institutes of Health, aims to “accelerate diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging in the biomedical research community,” according to an announcement from the VUMC Reporter, the in-house publication of the medical school’s media team.
Vanderbilt’s “Equity, Diversity and Inclusion” staff website lists four “identity centers,” such as the Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center and the Office of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex Life, and 23 staff positions.
Over the 2021-22 academic year, EDI leaders developed a “comprehensive strategic plan” with six impact areas, according to its 2021-22 “Report for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion.”
Under the header “Belonging,” Vanderbilt listed the cultivation of “identity initiatives,” which it defines as “research hubs and support networks for institutionally under-resourced and marginalized communities” at the university.
Vanderbilt lists eight such “initiatives,” including AAPA for those identifying as Asian American and Pacific Islander, PersistVU for low-income students, and SomosVU for “Latinx/Hispanic people.”
Vanderbilt sponsors “Graduate Recognition Ceremonies” separated by identity group,
That is not a sustainable business model................
Perhaps underutilized office buildings in major cities could be made into universities.
Wow... what a racket!
The cost of a “college education” has ballooned higher and faster than any other part of the economy in the last 30 years
More than housing, more than health-care, certainly more than food or energy
So WHY aren’t shitlibs out protesting this? Oh - because they own this debt-fed scam.
I saw this as a manager of contracts with universities.
And, it's not just colleges and Univs. So much of our educational system is loaded with layers of "administrators" with fake or useless positions, great salaries and bennies, and a gold plated retirement.
Comprehensive, scrupulous and thoroughly fair audits might be difficult, but they would be highly worth the effort.
DEI is systemic racism.
They could cut the cost of tuition in half just by cutting the number of staff in half. Even more if the reduced the positions to about one third their size.
Bureaucracies are like cancer, they metastasize very quickly ............
The Jerry Lewis original Nutty Professor had a scene of the university president Dr. Mortimer S. Warfield (Del Moore) shuffling a pile of papers on his desk from right to left, then forward, then back and to the right with nothing actually getting done.
True to life (now on a laptop).
It is a sustainable model as long as the government funds it.
And the alumni...................
Do not support these institutions.
Do not support these institutions.
Students are just the grist for Deep State’s diploma mills...
SUNY warns of future $1B deficit without higher tuition or more aid
When you go to university in most countries it’s in an office building downtown.
No expansive gardens, football fields, basketball courts, saunas, luxury apartments, etc.
You want that other stuff you can join a sports club, visit a park or go to a spa.
(I’ve gone to college overseas)
Sounds like the US government freeloader model
How much do these over abundant grifting administrators charge the students in tuition costs after collecting from Obama’s federal student loan program
That’s the issue here
Over $174,000 per year?
Someone tell AOC she can quit complaining and go ‘work’ for a university
No wonder my kid’s tuition was so high there.
Big Con On Campus
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