Heather MacDonald Looks At The University Of California and finds "Less
Academics, More Narcissism". ,
California's budget crisis has reduced the University of California to
near-penury, claim its spokesmen. "Our campuses and the UC Office of
the President already have cut to the bone," the university system's
vice president for budget and capital resources warned earlier this
month, in advance of
this week's meeting of the university's regents. Well, not exactly to
the bone. Even as UC campuses jettison entire degree programs and lose
faculty to competing universities, one fiefdom has remained virtually
sacrosanct: the diversity machine.,,
Not only have diversity sinecures been protected from budget cuts,
their numbers are actually growing. The University of California at
San Diego, for example, is creating a new full-time "vice chancellor for
equity, diversity, and inclusion." This position would augment UC San
Diego's already massive diversity apparatus, which includes the
Chancellor's Diversity Office, the associate vice chancellor for faculty
equity, the assistant vice chancellor for diversity, the faculty equity
advisors, the graduate diversity coordinators, the staff diversity
liaison, the undergraduate student diversity liaison, the graduate
student diversity liaison, the chief diversity officer, the director of
development for diversity initiatives, the Office of Academic Diversity
and Equal Opportunity, the Committee on Gender Identity and Sexual
Orientation Issues, the Committee on the Status of Women, the Campus
Council on Climate, Culture and Inclusion, the Diversity Council, and
the directors of the Cross-Cultural Center, the Lesbian Gay Bisexual
Transgender Resource Center, and the Women's Center. ,
(It is appropriate that this new position is a "vice chancellor", since
the worst vice of our college and university administrations is
"diversity".),,
Among the things that the UCSD is cutting, while they increase their
diversity bureaucracy, is a master's degree program in electrical and
computer engineering. (Who needs those guys, anyway?),,
If these changes were taken to the limit, the UCSD would have only a
diversity bureaucracy, and no academics at all. I wish I could shake
the suspicion that some university administrators would like that
ending. ,- 8:02 AM
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