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What does the DEI bureaucracy do?
There are 187 UVA employees and students dedicated to“assist and monitor all units of the University in their efforts to recruit and retain faculty, staff, and student from historically underrepresented groups and to provide affirmative and supportive environments for work and life…”
Here are some of the university agencies committed to the DEI mission. If you think you are seeing double in this list, you are right:
Equity Center (110 employees total: 37 employees +73 students),
Office for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (17 employees +1 student),
Multicultural Student Services (6 employees +10 students),
Office of Diversity & Engagement (3 employees + 4 students)
Center for Diversity (4 students)
Included in the DEI employment roster are another 31 people working in DEI roles sprinkled throughout other departments, including the Urology Department, in Occupational Programs, for the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and other areas.
Then, there are another 48 employees and students working in roles related to DEI and advancing equality for women, minorities, etc.
Maxine Platzer Lynn Women’s Center (21 employees, including 4 undergrad students/interns)
Office of Equal Opportunity and Civil Rights (16 employees working on Title IX compliance, sexual misconduct investigations and Americans with Disabilities Act compliance, among other things)
Office of African American Affairs (4 employees)
Center for Global Health Equity (4 employees and 3 student employees working on providing health services to mostly Third World countries)
Not included in the DEI numbers for this investigation were the Women, Gender and Sexuality Department with 10 professors making a collective $857,103 last year ($1.1 million with benefits) and the Psychology Department with 87 employees making $8.4 million ($11 million with benefits).
Adding to the confusion, the university has consistently undercounted DEI staffers in presentations to the public. In April 2023, Kevin McDonald told the New York Timesthat UVA had only 40 DEI employees. In May 2023, a presentation to the Board of Visitors claimed UVA had only 55 DEI positions.
Even our list of 235 employees is not complete. Here is a great example of an executive with a hidden DEI mission:
Kimberley Barker, Librarian for Digital Life ($80,000, or $104,000 with benefits). Barker isn’t in our database, however, she is the DEI leader for the Health System Library – the “IDEA (Inclusion Diversity Equity Accessibility) lead. Her university bio page lists her as the “Librarian for Belonging and Community Engagement.”
Summary
UVA was founded by Thomas Jefferson, the author of our Declaration of Independence. Jefferson’s work presented the moral case for a common freedom among all men. The university has an historic opportunity to promote the time-tested principles:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness…”
But, instead of working towards the ideal of the Shining City on the Hill under Jeffersonian principles, his university embraced the divisive quotas of the neo-Marxist DEI crowd.
Tens of millions of dollars in student tuition and taxpayer monies are flowing into promoting anti-American notions and radical philosophies that judge the color of one’s skin instead of the content – and competence – of their character.
Students, taxpayers and all who care about learning can look to Florida as the beacon of a new day. Perhaps Virginia, a birthplace of our Constitutional republic, home to birth places of individual rights and freedoms in America, will emulate the model.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/university-virginia-spends-20-million-235-dei-employees-some-making-587340-year