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 six-figure salaries, 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 at 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.
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Places of higher education are also the dumping grounds for Democrats who lost an election or served their maximum terms in office. Martin O'Malley making big bucks at University of Maryland and Mac Mathias at UMES- Both well over $150,000.00 a year.
ReplyDeleteThe 'positions' they hold did not exist at the institutions until they needed an income after leaving office.