The Campus Diversity Racket
Apr 22nd, 2012 by Unamused
In “Colleges skimp on science, spend big on diversity” (Washington Examiner), Michael Barone largely rehashes Heather Mac Donald’s “Less Academics, More Narcissism” (City Journal) from July of last year, explaining that our government’s idea of “investing in education” is firstly to throw money away on a failing public school system, presumably to close the “achievement gap,” i.e., the “IQ gap,” i.e., race differences in intelligence, and secondly to shovel cash into public universities that are now little more than radical “re-education” camps that teach impressionable kids to hate the West.
Today we’re going to talk about the second colossal waste of your tax dollars.
The diversity racket at UC San Diego
“The University of California system has been raising tuitions and cutting departments,” Barone writes, but “its San Diego campus found the money to create a new post of ‘vice chancellor for equity, diversity and inclusion.’”
That’s in addition to what the Manhattan Institute’s Heather Mac Donald calls its “already massive diversity apparatus.” It takes Mac Donald 103 words just to list the titles of UCSD’s diversitycrats.
Here are Heather Mac Donald’s 103 words (City Journal):
the Chancellor’s Diversity Office, the associate vice chancellor for faculty equity, the assistant vice chancellor for diversity, the faculty equity advisors, the graduate diversity coordinators, the staff diversity liaison, the undergraduate student diversity liaison, the graduate student diversity liaison, the chief diversity officer, the director of development for diversity initiatives, the Office of Academic Diversity and Equal Opportunity, the Committee on Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation Issues, the Committee on the Status of Women, the Campus Council on Climate, Culture and Inclusion, the Diversity Council, and the directors of the Cross-Cultural Center, the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Resource Center, and the Women’s Center.
Mac Donald quotes the job description of the new, full-time Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion: “building on existing diversity plans to develop and implement a campus-wide strategy on equity, diversity and inclusion.”
“The strategic plan,” says [outgoing UCSD chancellor Marye Anne Fox], “will inform the final organizational structure for the office of the VC EDI, will propose metrics to gauge progress, and will identify potential additional areas of responsibility.”
Gosh, that sounds critically important — almost certainly worth losing those three “prestigious cancer researchers” to Rice University, a private school in Houston which is presumably suffering greatly from its failure to maintain sufficient levels of Diversity management (and is plainly jam-packed with racist, sexist, conservative types).
It was definitely probably worth eliminating UC San Diego’s master’s programs in electrical and computer engineering (sexist) and comparative literature (antisemitic), as well as courses in English literature (homophobic), French literature (Islamophobic), German literature (HITLER), and Spanish literature (I’m pretty sure they hate “Native Americans”).
Meanwhile, at UC Berkeley…
In 2010, UC Berkeley “announced the UC Berkeley Initiative for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, funded in part by a $16 million gift from the Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund.”
The “new” initiative duplicates existing “equity” projects, not least the Berkeley Diversity Research Initiative, established by Berkeley chancellor Robert Birgeneau in 2006. This latest initiative boasts five new faculty chairs in “diversity-related research”—one of which will be “focused on equity rights affecting the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community,” according to the press release, and “will be one of the first endowed chairs on this subject in the United States.”
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“Area studies such as ethnic studies, queer studies and gender studies tend to be marginalized and viewed as less essential to the university than such fields as engineering, law or biology,” glumly noted the press release.
At the time, the university’s Vice Chancellor for Equity and Inclusion was already earning — well, receiving — a base salary of $194,000, and “[t]he salary and expense account of the likely new director of the UC Berkeley Initiative for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion” — note that this is apparently completely different from the Vice Chancellorship for Equity and Inclusion — “will likely dwarf anything seen so far among diversocrats, according to inside sources.”
For comparison, the starting pay for assistant professors of presumably more-or-less real subjects is $53,000.
Not UCLA, too!
UCLA’s diversity infrastructure has likewise been spared the budgetary ax. In the pre-recession 2005–06 academic year, UCLA’s associate vice chancellor for faculty diversity reported up the bureaucratic ladder to a vice chancellor for academic personnel, herself reporting to an executive vice chancellor and provost, who in turn reported to the university chancellor. Today, that associate vice chancellor for faculty diversity has been transformed into a vice provost position, while the vice chancellor for academic personnel above her has been eliminated. The new vice provost for faculty diversity will not be lonely; she can pal around with UCLA’s associate director for diversity research and analysis, its associate vice provost for student diversity, its associate dean for academic diversity, its director of diversity outreach, and its director of staff affirmative action.
Unsurprisingly, the “one observable activity performed by these lavishly funded diversity bureaucrats is to pressure academic departments to hire more women and minorities.”
Just how bad are California’s public universities?
While it was cutting programs, eliminating courses, and losing cancer researchers, UC San Diego’s Academic Senate found the time to mandate “a new campus-wide diversity requirement for graduation.”
Huzzah?
The cultivation of “a student’s understanding of her or his identity,” as the diversity requirement proposal put it, would focus on “African Americans, Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, Hispanics, Chicanos, Latinos, Native Americans, or other groups” through the “framework” of “race, ethnicity, gender, religion, sexuality, language, ability/disability, class or age.”
In “The Radicalization of the University of California” (Minding the Campus), Charlotte Allen cites a very recent report by the California Association of Scholars, which found that UC Santa Cruz offers “no fewer than five introductory courses devoted exclusively to the thinking of Karl Marx.” UC Santa Barbara’s Sociology 1 course focused on “theories on globalization that portrayed Western civilization as almost demonic, heartless, and ruthless beasts that enslave the world for financial gain,” according to one student. Another student reported that instructors for a mandatory first-year writing course at UC San Diego have made “disparaging remarks about contemporary American society, the evils of our ‘imperialism,’ and Western ‘fascism’.”
Well, obviously.
The disease spreads
In “Yes, We’re Broke, But Leave the Diversity Machine Alone” (Minding the Campus) from last October, John Leo notes that the University of North Carolina, Wilmington decided “to lump together two serious academic departments (because of a shortage of funding) while once again expanding the campus diversity bureaucracy (for which no funding shortage ever seems to appear).”
[T]he university will save $80,000 a year lumping together the Physics and Physical Oceanographic Department with the Geography and Geology Department, while committing more funds to five diversity-multicultural offices, each apparently run by someone commanding a hefty salary.
This is an old story on our campuses. Colleges and universities enact severe budget cuts, dropping programs and letting teachers go, while unapologetically expanding their already swollen diversity bureaucracy. This is because diversity now has the status of an established religion on our campuses, while actual teaching deals only in mere learning.
only an Empire as flush as the post-war US could carry such useless, totalitarian “employees” and still not crash economically
the feminist/identity/diversity Politburo is far too entrenched in amerikan culture, especially “education” to rectify now
they love their fat salaries, they love their important titles, they love their do-nothing jobs, and they especially love the authority their New Soviet Statism gives over their betters in life . . . for what power could be greater than to rule over others according to whether they think and behave according to Korrect politics and ideology
the sooner this National Horrorshow goes down, the better for the planet and race
a sick, selfish, hateful, evil nation of third-rate thugs, dressed up as our Kultural Superiors
almost certainly worth losing those three “prestigious cancer researchers” to Rice University, a private school in Houston which is presumably suffering greatly from its failure to maintain sufficient levels of Diversity management (and is plainly jam-packed with racist, sexist, conservative types).
Well, Steve Sailer IS a Rice alum.
Even the historically black colleges and universities have these myriad equality and diversity positions, along with wasting billions on workshops and such. You would think an HBCU would be exempt but our government will give any amount of other peoples money as long as it is for diversity and equality.
I remember when my college got its first black dean. All the fruity little academics almost peed their pants in excitement. Onc
Empty suits and empty heads, but with clout backed by a huge array of power. The matrix.
I was reading my school’s “diversity plan” a month or so ago. The president of the school sent out a letter addressing “some issues” on the campus after some guys ((sadly I didn’t participate as I am not a member of YWC (I agree with most of their views, but after e-mailing the group’s leader found I diverge from them on one important issue) and they were very secretive and very organized in this)) put up messages calling attention to the plight of farmers in South Africa.
The letter can be seen here: http://www.towson.edu/president/message.asp It is full of spiteful, lording and patronizing language. The letter is disgusting in it’s entirety, but I will give you two excerpts which I found to be of importance.
Excerpt:
“We must continue to educate the entire campus community on the nature of privilege, racism, oppression, discrimination and all other related issues and provide transparent processes by which to appropriately report incidents.”
I found interesting the use of the word “privilege. ” Left undefined in this letter, the word “privilege” means whatever they want it to mean. Clearly the English language has been hijacked and manipulated to accommodate their world view.
This is no different than Obama’s use of “fair share.” It is whatever the communists want it to mean at the time. The definition can change daily and daily you will be in compliance. It is no different with resources, you will give them their “fair share” and deal with your lack. When they have consumed it they will simply be back for more “fair share” the next day. Again it will be whatever they say it means and again you will be in compliance.
Excerpt II:
“the University strives to mirror the face of the population in the region and the state by fostering a model of a respectful and inclusive environment that serves to prepare all members of the institution to appreciate differences, including ideological differences, and to live comfortably within an increasingly multicultural society.”
First if the campus community reflected the population of the state it wouldn’t be 62% female, and (contrary to their goal of eliminating Whites) would actually need to DOUBLE it’s black population. Fortunately standards haven’t sunk low enough to be able to accommodate them, and they have at least three HBCUs in this state to attend (Bowie, Morgan, Choppin) and the University of Baltimore and Baltimore City Community College.
Second, notice how they are ready to PREPARE all of it’s students to LIVE COMFORTABLY in an increasingly multicultural society. That’s a whopper there. I’ll give you guys a moment to re-read that and take it all in…
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Ok, so basically what they’re saying in that one paragraph is that they are 1. conditioning us, 2. want us to accept whatever (sure to be shoddy) conditions the diversity crowd is sure to bring, and 3. to accept this as an inevitability.
What I understood my University president as saying is this: “While you are free to say whatever you want to say, you will be in compliance with what we want you to say”
I long ago contacted both my college and graduate institution and had my name removed from all mailing lists. Neither will get a penny from me, and I don’t need the additional aggravation of reading their glossy publications touting diversity and sexual orientation. If only stupid Whites would stop sending their children and their money to these institutions, they’d collapse tomorrow, just like the black-run cities minus White funding. With a mixture of community college, on-line courses, and WORK, White kids can do just fine. Crazily costly degrees from mind-bending diversicrats is to be avoided at all costs. Same with sending your children to public schools: de facto child abuse.
I want to get a job in a diversity program. My first order of business would be to suggest renaming the department “Office of White Diminishment”. Means the same thing, so what would be the problem?
One good thing that comes from more blacks in colleges is that whites and Asians will finish with a higher class rank.
The cultivation of “a student’s understanding of her or his identity,” as the diversity requirement proposal put it, would focus on “African Americans, Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, Hispanics, Chicanos, Latinos, Native Americans, or other groups” through the “framework” of “race, ethnicity, gender, religion, sexuality, language, ability/disability, class or age.”
I noticed “Europeans” or “European-Americans” are not included among the groups that will be asked to understand their identity.
I already knew this. But it’s nice to see them admit it in print.
The cultivation of “a student’s understanding of her or his identity,” as the diversity requirement proposal put it, would focus on “African Americans, Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, Hispanics, Chicanos, Latinos, Native Americans, or other groups” through the “framework” of “race, ethnicity, gender, religion, sexuality, language, ability/disability, class or age.”
In other words, learning to self-hate your White ass because it fucked up the world for minorities/gays/cripples.
I remember my days of learning how to hate my Whiteness. Teaching in an inner city school full of blacks, hispanics, immigrants who hated America, muslims, and maybe one or two white kids smartened me up real quick.
This is straight out of Atlas Shrugged.
A world being populated by those who can’t turning out even more of those who can’t at the cost of reducing the number of those who can.
We are getting close people. If anybody here knows anyone in any of these positions (not likely but possible) remember that when the time comes, they were never really your friend and were always anti-you.
90404 is Santa Monica zip. JC has an ‘ombudsperson’ who can be reached at ombudsperson@smc.edu.
JC has 1000+ illegals. They get $ help from ‘Latino Center’ etc.
Brown has signed the ‘Dream Act’. etcetc.
SM is a ‘sustainable city’ [what does that mean?].
We have zero waste events.
The JCs radio station KCRW has been over taken by leftist Jews.
etcetc.
Oh dear Van Jones just spoke at JC for earthday.hahahahahhaha
I just remembered this. SMC has a glib chinaman as president [Chui Tsang]. He pushes ‘Global Citizenship’ and SMC.edu has GC requirements to graduate!!!
With over 1000 f’in wetbacks on our overcrowded campus this chinaman pushes ‘global citizenship’.
WTF?????
Another thought popped into my mind. UCLA. Remember the Alexandra Wallace Youtube scandal?
UCLA= U C Lotsa Asians.
I hear UCLA is now mostly foreign students and % of White non jews is small!!!!
Love ya Unamused, from Soviet Monika..90404
“The strategic plan…”
Did I read that right. An actual allegedly literate adult, employed by a university no less, used the phrase “strategic plan”.
Ah, screw it. You know what, white folks, let’s all just secede now and get it over with. We can still take about two-thirds of the continent with us, seal it off and then watch laughing as the remaining third collapses.
We’re going to have to do it eventually, we really are; may as well do it now.
Is this also an attempt to limit the Asians on campuses and using the diversity bs to close the achievement gap among all other racial/ethnic groups? I do not know if this is true or not, but I have read that the University of California system and some of the ivy league schools are reclassifying Asian students as white/caucasian to limit their numbers on campus.
I decided to look at how much diversicrats make at University of Wisconsin at Madison (salary data are public and accessible from any computer on campus). Well, it’s depressing. Top folks at this lucrative field generally make more than anyone on tenure track in STEM and sometimes more than Associate Professors doing STEM science.
This is the top guy with $150K/year:
http://www.provost.wisc.edu/climate.htm
He heads several offices:
Office for Equity and Diversity. Its top guy makes $102K and the entire office’s salary sums up to $589K:
http://www.provost.wisc.edu/pinero.htm
Pre-College Enrichment Opportunity Program for Learning Excellence.
http://peopleprogram.wisc.edu/contact.html
The top woman in this PEOPLE office makes $80K.
Center For Educational Opportunities (“Our mission is to provide a supportive learning community which fosters an equal opportunity for success in higher education.”) It’s director makes $75K and total salary figure for this office is $670K.
Office of Multicultural Arts Initiatives (“provides culturally relevant and transformative arts programming to promote positive social dialogue”). Its executive director pulls $64 a year and a total salary number stands at $270K.
And that’s just central administration. On top of that, every school and every program appear to have various folks dealing with diversity and equal opportunity. Stuff like Office of Graduate Student Diversity Resources. And that’s all at the moment when the university is under budgetary stress and has instituted compulsory furlough program (an equivalent of 3% salary cut) for all of its employees for two years now.
Why no decent person should buy Levi Strauss products of any kind including Dockers pants, etc. Haas is the former chairman of Levi Strauss. Also Haas supports anti-gun efforts a/k/a criminal empowerment campaigns.
I don’t see how boycotting Levis can change what the former chairman does.
Another great article Unamused.
The college I attend is probably one of the least overtly political in the country (which makes sense, considering that it’s in Redneck Central; the town still hates the college to the point of violence for dropping its church affiliation some time ago, so it’s pretty clear that they can’t get away with much more than what they’re doing), and they still have a ‘multicultural’ requirement in Gen Ed.
What is ‘multicultural’, you ask? This coming semester, out of the 12 classes offered that fulfill that requirement, six are explicitly focused on blacks (including a class in African drumming!), and three are about women. Although, to be fair, if you’re the sort of person who would be dealing with multiculturalism programs at colleges, women really would seem like an alien culture.
Oh, and one of the other three is on the welfare system.
The first college I went to, on the other hand, had “Diversity Day”: one day every semester (Veterans’ Day, the semester I was there) where classes were canceled and students were required to attend ~diversity seminars~. Unfortunately, I don’t have any entertaining stories; I tried to go to the ones that sounded the most likely to be hives of scum and villainy, but those filled up so quickly that I didn’t have a chance.
This was also the school that had, in its mandatory freshman health program, such absurdities as a “one-man avant garde theater” show, where one of the characters was a homophobe who was sent to prison, and recounted in excruciating detail his near-constant rape. Better yet, the place has almost never in its entire history *not* had budget problems threatening to shut it down completely… but, oh no, where would we be without our ~avant garde~ revenge-porn?
Academia is a parody of itself. There is nothing it could do at this point that would surprise me. For that matter, the same goes for the other power centers of the Western world; we have Maoist-style propaganda, made by a Chinese propagandist, in the capital of the United States of America.
‘reclassifying Asian students as white/caucasian to limit their numbers on campus’
Or to limit the # on non jewish whites [somehow].
I am a jog from UCLA [U See Lotsa Asians]. I hear most attending UCLA are NOT EVEN CITIZENS!!!! [ITS YR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK].
nydwracu………….Yr tale is Chilling, can you tell us more about the Indoctrination Gulag you attend? [Name of it, State, etc].
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Unamused: I’m very pleased to see this work. Few among the us, even the race realists, will discuss the gangrenous source of blindness in Western Culture. God forbid it cast doubt on pedigrees or damage chances to win the “big game”.
Most modern insanity comes from the highly educated and the religious, hyper-hierarchical bureaucracies they inhabit, namely, our university system.
Fish rot from the head first.
[...] For example, many universities are busy slashing science programs, cutting computer science, and even savaging the liberal arts but they have time and money for diversity. The indomitable Heather Mac Donald collected this list of diversity-related job titles from one university: the Chancellor’s Diversity Office, the associate vice chancellor for faculty equity, the assistant vice chancellor for diversity, the faculty equity advisors, the graduate diversity coordinators, the staff diversity liaison, the undergraduate student diversity liaison, the graduate student diversity liaison, the chief diversity officer, the director of development for diversity initiatives, the Office of Academic Diversity and Equal Opportunity, the Committee on Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation Issues, the Committee on the Status of Women, the Campus Council on Climate, Culture and Inclusion, the Diversity Council, and the directors of the Cross-Cultural Center, the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Resource Center, and the Women’s Center. – City Journal, via Unamusement Park [...]