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Top diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) employees at major public universities earn massive six-figure salaries for leading initiatives that some experts found to be ineffective and instead enforce a “political orthodoxy.”
A review of salary data shows that the universities of Michigan, Maryland, Virginia and Illinois, plus Virginia Tech, boast some of the highest-paid DEI staffers at public universities, a Fox News review found. These institutions’ top diversity employees earn salaries ranging from $329,000 to $430,000 – vastly eclipsing the average pay for the schools’ full-time tenured professors.
Four of the colleges justified the DEI leaders’ salaries, citing the executives’ seniority and the importance of their responsibilities. The University of Illinois did not return a request for comment.
Experts identified these universities as having some of the most bloated DEI staff in the country and said they each rack up millions in costs each year.
The University Of Michigan North Campus signage at the University Of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan on July 30, 2019.
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Jay Greene, a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation’s Center for Education Policy, said that while the “ostensible objective” of DEI is to make college campuses more welcoming and inclusive, he doesn’t believe that is the purpose of the initiatives.
“Instead, the effective purpose of diversity, equity and inclusion is to create a political orthodoxy and enforce that political orthodoxy, which fundamentally distorts the intellectual and political life on campus,” Greene told Fox News.
The five schools shelling out top-shelf salaries to DEI personnel have between 71 and 163 individuals devoted to diversity efforts on campus, according to a study Greene co-authored.
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