Posted on 02/13/2024 2:34:43 PM PST by george76
Idaho public universities have ramped up spending to $6 million on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts and teaching students about 'white fragility' and 'toxic masculinity..
Idaho Freedom Foundation (IFF) researchers have lifted the lid on a tripling of DEI spending since 2022 at Boise State University (BSU) and three other taxpayer-funded schools across the Gem State.
Those schools now have 75 administrators dedicated to DEI, many of them earning six-figure salaries.
The top earner, Yolanda Bisbee, is an expert on tribal relations who bags $170,706 per year as chief diversity officer at the University of Idaho (UI).
'The DEI regime has been growing in Idaho's public universities,'
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Neither BSU, UI, Idaho State University (ISU), nor Lewis Clark State College (LCSC) answered our requests for comment.
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DEI staff now make up more than 3.4 positions for every 100 tenured professors, according to nationwide research by The Heritage Foundation, stoking fears of a ballooning sector that some say is no more than a woke box-ticking exercise.
Utah's Republican Gov Spencer Cox last month signed a bill into law that made the state the latest to prohibit diversity training, hiring, and inclusion programs at universities and in state government.
Republican lawmakers in at least 17 states have proposed some three dozen bills to restrict or require public disclosure of DEI initiatives, mostly in higher education, according to an analysis of the bill-tracking software Plural.
Meanwhile, Democrats in nine states have filed at least 20 bills to require or promote DEI schemes.
According to IFF, Idaho's public universities have 'continued to build out their DEI infrastructure in the face of legislative opposition' by state lawmakers.
Spending on DEI staffers has jumped from $2.2 million in February 2022 to nearly $6 million today
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I would seriously consider studying abroad, if I was college age today.
white students should be lining up to sue
Thought Idaho was a Red state....who is approving this mess??
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