Posted on 01/01/2020 5:49:50 AM PST by Kaslin
Colleges have been around for centuries. College students have also been around for centuries. Yet, college administrators assume that today's students have needs that were unknown to their predecessors. Those needs include diversity and equity personnel, with massive budgets to accommodate.
According to Minding the Campus, Penn State University's Office of Vice Provost for Educational Equity employs 66 staff members. The University of Michigan currently employs a diversity staff of 93 full-time diversity administrators, officers, directors, vice provosts, deans, consultants, specialists, investigators, managers, executive assistants, administrative assistants, analysts and coordinators. Amherst College, with a student body of 1,800 students employs 19 diversity people. Top college diversity bureaucrats earn salaries six figures, in some cases approaching $500,000 per year. In the case of the University of Michigan, a quarter (26) of their diversity officers earn annual salaries of more than $100,000. If you add generous fringe benefits and other expenses, you could easily be talking about $13 million a year in diversity costs. The Economist reports that University of California, Berkeley, has 175 diversity bureaucrats.
Diversity officials are a growing part of a college bureaucracy structure that outnumbers faculty by 2 to 2.5 depending on the college. According to "The Campus Diversity Swarm," an article from Mark Pulliam, a contributing editor at Law and Liberty, which appeared in the City Journal (10/10/2018), diversity people assist in the cultivation of imaginary grievances of an ever-growing number of "oppressed" groups. Pulliam writes: "The mission of campus diversity officers is self-perpetuating. Affirmative action (i.e., racial and ethnic preferences in admissions) leads to grievance studies. Increased recognition of LGBTQ rights requires ever-greater accommodation by the rest of the student body. Protecting 'vulnerable' groups from 'hate speech' and 'microaggressions' requires speech codes and bias-response teams (staffed by diversocrats). Complaints must be investigated and adjudicated (by diversocrats). Fighting 'toxic masculinity' and combating an imaginary epidemic of campus sexual assault necessitate consent protocols, training, and hearing procedures -- more work for an always-growing diversocrat cadre. Each newly recognized problem leads to a call for more programs and staffing."
Campus diversity people have developed their own professional organization -- the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education. They hold annual conferences -- the last one in Philadelphia. The NADOHE has developed standards for professional practice and a political agenda, plus a Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, which is published by the American Psychological Association.
One wonders just how far spineless college administrators will go when it comes to caving in to the demands of campus snowflakes who have been taught that they must be protected against words, events and deeds that do not fully conform to their extremely limited, narrow-minded beliefs built on sheer delusion. Generosity demands that we forgive these precious snowflakes and hope that they eventually grow up. The real problem is with people assumed to be grown-ups -- college professors and administrators -- who serve their self-interest by tolerating and giving aid and comfort to our aberrant youth. Unless the cycle of promoting and nursing imaginary grievances is ended, diversity bureaucracies will take over our colleges and universities, supplanting altogether the goal of higher education.
"Diversity" is the highest goal of students and professors who openly detest those with whom they disagree. These people support the very antithesis of higher education with their withering attacks on free speech. Both in and out of academia, the content of a man's character is no longer as important as the color of his skin, his sex, his sexual preferences or his political loyalties. That's a vision that spells tragedy for our nation.
These are students that at some point enter the work force and then go on to pull this same shit in our corporations.
“Diversity” is an industry all to itself, and it’s minions have not only become a parasite to academia they have gotten a strong hold in all the top corporations as well. The entire thing is a political agenda that yes had its roots in academia but expanded beyond those roots at least a decade ago if not sooner.
Diversity in all things except thought. Amazing stats about colleges today... something is terribly wrong.
In state schools it’s the state legislatures that have abrogated their responsibilities on this!
Diversity officials = Bribe Taker
Ever see a poor one
Students pay for wasteful diversity staff. They are dumb enough to pay for 3 burgers but only eat 1.
Right to Assembly does not include lazy diversity staff.
Put a line in the University contract that they must pay back tuition on worthless degrees.
The left has slowly been insinuating itself into the education system for several generations. They are pretty much in full control now. Getting them out will take Herculean effort..
That’s what I did. “You get no ‘privacy’ as long as you live at home. Fill this out, turn it in, and bring me a receipt.”
Actually, no.
Nearly free education exists now in the form of Internet learning and used textbooks. The key missing ingredient is certified testing.
Even in the STEM careers most of the learning is rote and changes little from year to year. Obviously, laboratory and clinical rotations need brick and mortar settings but the rest doesn’t.
My associate owed a quarter of million dollars for his education and training. With certified testing the cost could be reduced ten fold.
Why would you check to see if your son or daughter were attending finals?
Exactly. And STEM students who can’t learn what they need to know online aren’t actually fit for modern STEM jobs.
Testing is what is required. There is a great startup opportunity here, which should be done in coordination with a number of major STEM employers to get it going.
and don’t forget the public school system operated by our local school boards. Go by any headquarter building and you will find it full of unnecessary personnel and, of course it is a very diverse work force.
A few years ago individual school administrators handled most everything necessary to operate a good school. And, of course, you will find the more non-teaching positions added resulted in poorer performing schools.
Check the ratio of teaching personnel versus non-teaching personnel in your school system.
Oh, and while we’re at it—universities pay all those diversity, etc., idiots six-fiure salaries, and the adjuncts who do the vast majority of the actual college teaching these days what often works out to sub-minimum wages.
Shouldn’t be allowed for them to pay what they do. Those adjuncts are thus increasingly unionizing, with the likes of SEIU and other union hucksters getting involved—and usually getting those profs up to about minimum wage or so.
But parents are paying massive amounts for some overburdened minimum-wage employee to be their kids’ “professors”.
If you have to call to see if your kid is attending finals, that’s a major problem right there.
Past time to let your kid fail and grow up on his/her own, without you subsidizing irresponsible behavior.
The government subsidizes irresponsible behavior all the time and gets more of it.
No reason at all for parents to do that with our own children—though yeah, through student loans taxpayers are subsidizing much of the irresponsible college behavior at this point.
Its all funded by Fed.gov. Where did $1.3 Trillion in present student debt come from?
Yes. It’s why commercials and network TV are unwatchable.
If I were a newly graduated high schooler today, I would get a job in the field I want and go to community college or take online courses.
Algebra is algebra. You don’t need to learn it at one of these mind control palaces.
Or, learn to make violins, how about that?
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