A college education, it appears, is something to DIE for.
A report released by the conservative Heritage Foundation revealed how bloated the Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity bureaucracy has become on America’s major college campuses.
Heritage looked at 65 colleges whose combined student bodies make up 16 percent of the country’s college student population.
As one example, the report noted that DIE personnel “totaled 4.2 times the number of staff who assist students with disabilities in receiving reasonable accommodations, as required by law.”
Those staffing levels also “were 1.4 times larger than the number of professors in these universities’ corresponding history departments.”
Additionally, the average university had 3.4 people working to promote DIE for every 100 tenured or tenure-track faculty members, Heritage found.
The think tank also looked into specific schools, with some astounding results.
The University of Michigan alone employs 163 people to oversee DIE policies. That ranked number one nationally.
Georgia Tech had 3.2 times as many DIE staffers as history professors, while at the University of Louisville, that ratio was 2.9.
The bloat is significant.
The leaders of these sections usually carry the title of vice president or something similar. And, of course, “Almost all of these central diversity offices are further supported by directors of communication, program assistants, and administrative assistants,” the report says.
“In addition to these general diversity, equity, and inclusion offices, most universities have several units focused on providing services and programming related to particular gender or ethnic identities,” the report adds. “Almost all universities have something like a Multicultural Affairs Center [which tend to encompass black student groups], but most also have Women’s Centers, LGBTQ Centers, and Hispanic/Latino Centers.”
And, “these centers have directors, assistant directors, program assistants, graduate and undergraduate interns, and administrative staff.”
Yet it’s difficult to quantify whether all this manpower and expense benefits anything except left-wing activists.
“Based on a review of climate surveys administered to students at many of these same universities, the size of the DEI bureaucracy bears little relationship to students’ satisfaction with their college experience, in general—or with their diversity experience, in particular,” Heritage noted.
“DEI [Heritage used Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion] bureaucracies appear to increase administrative bloat without contributing to the stated goals of diversity, equity, and inclusion.”
“Employing dozens of DEI professionals — in the form of chief diversity officers, assistant deans for diversity, and directors for inclusive excellence — may be better understood as jobs programs subsidizing political activism without improving campus climate,” the report concludes.
“In light of these findings, state legislators and donors who fund these institutions may wish to examine DEI efforts more closely to ensure that university resources are used effectively.”
If you are looking for the most anti-DIE college, consider Baylor.
According to Heritage’s data, Baylor ranked 65th – or last in this group – in terms of the ratios of DIE personnel to those overseeing ADA requirements, DIE to history faculty and DIE to overall faculty, and next to last in the number of actual DIE staffers.
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