"Universities face a serious dilemma in their quest for diversity and inclusion.
Alas, this noble intention has a cost: degrees in Black studies, Women’s Studies, Gender Studies, and similar identity group majors hardly put much bread on the table.
To be blunt, the well-intentioned, socially responsible university is guilty of fraud when it tells its socially-minded recruits that a degree in a “gut” major is the pathway to success.
The problem is thus finding a field of study that simultaneously helps students earn a degree and offers a genuine economic pay-off.
Here’s the solution: “Diversity Studies,” a major that will provide both the diploma and a well-paid career.
This solution arrived as a Eureka moment when I read how the University of Michigan employed some 93 full-time staff charged with promoting diversity.
All had high sounding titles–diversity administrator, directors of diversity, vice-provosts, Deans, investigators, executive assistants, and consultants.
More than a quarter of these functionaries earned more than $100,000 plus generous fringe benefits worth about 32.5% of salary.
Indeed, salaries at the top here far exceed salaries of well-paid distinguished professors.
- Robert Sellers, Vice Provost for Equity and Inclusion & Chief Diversity Officer, takes home $396,550;
- David Brown, Michigan’s Associate Dean Office of Health Equity & Inclusion earned some $220,000....
Further, add how diversity mania has become ubiquitous and, as the old Soviet Union installed political commissars everywhere, every corner of the campus must now have its very own diversity specialist, so prospects for yet more positions are excellent..."
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