Economics Prof Blasts Higher Education for Wasting Tuition Dollars on Diversity Hires
“have flooded the university system with unnecessary and perpetually increasing expenses”
It’s a shame that more people are not speaking out in this way. Unfortunately, there is tremendous risk involved.
Campus Reform reports:
Prof calls college a ‘racket,’ blasts diversity hires
An economics professor at George Mason University is speaking out about the “racket” that he says is college, and blaming it on the “diversity people” who he says have flooded the university system with unnecessary and perpetually increasing expenses tied to a seemingly endless need for more and more diversity initiatives and faculty.
In his op-ed for The National Interest, George Mason University professor Walter E. Williams explains that institutions of higher education have started budgeting for “diversity and equity personnel” to accommodate the modern-day college student. The idea, Williams says, is to protect “vulnerable” groups of students from “hate speech” and “microaggressions,” noting that they have even gone as far as creating speech codes and bias-response teams to investigate complaints.
But Williams also takes issue with the fact that it doesn’t stop there. As each of these programs is created, colleges and universities find a “need” for more programs and faculty and therefore more money to fund these initiatives.
Diversity programs and staff come at a high price. Williams cites a study by a group called “Minding the Campus,” which found that Penn State University’s Office of the Vice Provost for Educational Equity employs a total of 66 individual 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,” writes Williams.
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Virtue signaling is VERY expensive. College administrators look “woke” by hiring diversity drones, and they increase their own power (measured by the number of people they supervise) by doing so. They don’t seem to care that the students will ultimately pay the price in the even-bigger loans they take out to pay the ever-rising tuition.
Need to put colleges and their endowments on the line to pay for student defaults on debts for tuition and fees.
Walter E. Williams is a heavyweight. I’ve always enjoyed his commentaries.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_E._Williams