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I will be so happy when this bullshit blows over and we can go back to content of character.
From The Heritage Foundation:

Diversity University: DEI Bloat in the Academy
The promotion of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) on college campuses has become a central concern of higher education. Universities have created administrative and staff positions tasked with developing programming and offering services related to DEI. While it is widely understood that universities have devoted significant resources and attention to DEI goals, there has been little systematic examination of the scope of DEI staffing in the academy. Similarly, it is unclear how DEI staffing varies across institutions and how levels of DEI personnel compare to other staffing priorities.

University DEI Staffing
This Backgrounder presents information on DEI personnel at 65 universities representing 16 percent of all students in four-year institutions in the United States.1
National Center for Education Statistics, “Table 303.25: Total Fall Enrollment in Degree-Granting Postsecondary Institutions, By Control and Level of Institution: 1970 Through 2019,” Digest of Education Statistics, https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d20/tables/dt20_303.25.asp?current=yes (accessed July 19, 2021).

After reviewing publicly accessible websites, these authors found that the average university they sampled listed more than 45 people as having formal responsibility for promoting DEI goals. DEI staff listed by universities totaled 4.2 times the number of staff who assist students with disabilities in receiving reasonable accommodations, as required by law. DEI staff levels were 1.4 times larger than the number of professors in these universities’ corresponding history departments. Moreover, the average university had 3.4 people working to promote DEI for every 100 tenured or tenure-track faculty members.

Much more at the site - the numbers do not lie.  Diversity has morphed into a big business.
They need to go back to their core purpose - educating the next generation.
Providing them with the skills to deal with life.

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