This is only ONE DEPARTEMENT!-----The Diversity Staff at the University of Michigan Is Nearly 100 People | Intellectual Takeout

The Diversity Staff at the University of Michigan Is Nearly 100 People | Intellectual Takeout
"Year after year, media note and sometimes bemoan the ballooning cost of higher education.

There is no doubt that the human costs of this rise are severe: 
Some 44 million Americans currently carry nearly $1.5 trillion in student loan debt, and the delinquency rate is 11 percent.   
There are various reasons for surging costs, but the primary one is the remarkable expansion of university administration in recent decades. 
As Paul Campos, a law professor at the University of Colorado, wrote in the New York Times a few years ago:

“According to the Department of Education data, administrative positions at colleges and universities grew by 60 percent between 1993 and 2009, which Bloomberg reported was 10 times the rate of growth of tenured faculty positions...

1. The University of Michigan currently employs a diversity staff of nearly 100 (93) full-time diversity administrators...

2. More than one-quarter (26) of these “diversicrats” earn annual salaries of more than $100,000, and the total...employee compensation for this group tops $11 million per year. And of course that doesn’t count the cost of office space, telephones, computers and printers, printing, postage, programs, training, or travel expenses.

If you fell out of your chair upon realizing that the University of Michigan has a full-time diversity staff of nearly one hundred employees, one of whom earns more than the president of the United States, you can be forgiven. I nearly did too..."
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