U. Virginia Spends $20 Million on DEI Staffers With Some Making $500K per Year
“That’s $15 million in cash compensation plus an additional 30-percent for the annual cost of their benefits.”
And people wonder why college tuition is so insanely high.
From Open the Books on Substack:
University of Virginia Spends $20 Million On 235 DEI Employees, With Some Making $587,340 Per Year
The University of Virginia (UVA) has at least 235 employees under its “diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI)” banner — including 82 students — whose total cost of employment is estimated at $20 million. That’s $15 million in cash compensation plus an additional 30-percent for the annual cost of their benefits.
In contrast, last Friday, the University of Florida dismissed its DEI bureaucracy, saving students and taxpayers $5 million per year. The university terminated 13 full-time DEI positions and 15 administrative faculty appointments. Those funds have been re-programmed into a “faculty recruitment fund” to attract better people who actually teach students.
No such luck for learning at Virginia’s flagship university – founded by Thomas Jefferson no less. UVA has a much deeper DEI infrastructure.
Reform or abolition must await this summer’s anticipated changes in the school’s Board of Visitors. At least until then, the very highly compensated, generally non-teaching, DEI staffers are safely embedded throughout the entire university – while costing students and taxpayers a fortune.
Our team of auditors at OpenTheBooks.com reviewed the university payroll file for 2023 to sort out the DEI position head counts, compensation, and then estimated the cost of benefits.
Martin N. Davidson, senior associate dean of the Darden School of Business & global chief diversity officer, earns the most in a DEI role, at $452,000, or $587,340 including benefits. For comparison, Glenn Youngkin, the governor of Virginia earned $175,000.
The second most highly compensated DEI executive is Kevin G. McDonald, the vice president for diversity, equity, inclusion and community partnerships, who takes home $401,465, or an estimated $520,000 with benefits.
Those in DEI leadership roles such as vice presidents, associate/assistant deans, directors, assistant directors and managers earned up to $312,000 last year, or $400,000 with benefits.
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Comments
These are do nothing jobs. They get paid for showing up. DEI/CRT is such a fraud. $20M would be better spent funding 20 academic scholarships for black history, with real scrutiny to research that doesn’t reward plagiarism.
You mean endowing? With 20 million annually (meaning no need to endow), you can fund a whole lot more than 20 scholarships.
“There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. “
Booker T. Washington (1911).
“My Larger Education: Being Chapters from My Experience”
Good grief. Why wasn’t Racial Grifting a major when I was in school? Can I self-identify now as a Black Midget Transgender Lesbian and get in on this half million dollar a year scam?
UVA is going to be DOA if they keep letting the wokefestation fester and metastisize.
UVA is doing fine in the state sad to say. They aren’t growing like VT and GMU but they aren’t going anywhere, DEI or no DEI.
I was a UVA Med school professor in the 80s and 90s and primarily was involved in teaching, supervision and research. No CRT/DEI ideological indoctrination. I doubt that I would have survived for more than ten minutes if that nonsense had been going on then. An emphasis on meritocracy that was the norm back then is obviously racist/sexist/anti-everything progressive today. Another school I taught in the 80s was notorious as a “party school” is now rabidly progressive. Not only are the schools not producing good research and education, the students aren’t even having a good time.