Colleges Are Investing In Administration At The Expense Of Education
University bureaucrats now outnumber faculty 2 to 1 at public universities and 2.5 to 1 at private colleges -- double the ratio in the 1970s, reports B.S. in The Economist.

High-coin jobs require justifying -- and the diversity industry is the perfect thing. Woke-ie-ocracy! They keep creating more jobs for those of their ilk by brainwashing students into believing they're victimized because somebody, oh, inquires about their hat.

B.S. writes:

AMERICAN universities are boosting spending on "diversity officials." At the University of California, Berkeley, for example, the number of diversity bureaucrats has grown to 175 or so, even as state funding to the university has been cut.

...Universities say that a boom in regulations under Barack Obama's administration increased the need to hire more bureaucrats of every kind. But one study found that for every dollar spent to comply with government rules, voluntary spending on bureaucracy totalled $2 at public universities and $3 at private ones. Robert Martin of Centre College in Kentucky, a co-author of the study, says the real reason for the growth in spending is that administrators want to hire subordinates, thereby boosting their own authority and often pay, rather than faculty, over whom they have less power. Bureaucrats outnumber faculty 2:1 at public universities and 2.5:1 at private colleges, double the ratio in the 1970s. Diversity is the top justification for these hires, says Richard Vedder of the Centre for College Affordability and Productivity, a think-tank. Of more than 1,000 bureaucrats at Ohio University in Athens, 400 are superfluous, he reckons. If let go, tuition fees could be cut by a fifth.

One result of all this is growing "resistance, anger, grumpiness, and eventually backlash" to the proliferation of diversity officials, says Alexandra Kalev of Tel Aviv University, one of the authors of the study on diversity training at American universities. Many white male professors, she found, now limit campus interaction with minorities and women, lest an unintentional slight get them in trouble. High spending on diversity officials also leads to fewer classes, as well as higher tuition fees, which make it harder for minorities, who are disproportionately poor, to attend college. Might students rebel? It looks unlikely. The era of Donald Trump seems to have strengthened the diversity bureaucracy's belief that students' feelings must be protected.

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Many white male professors, she found, now limit campus interaction with minorities and women, lest an unintentional slight get them in trouble.

High spending on diversity officials also leads to fewer classes, as well as higher tuition fees, which make it harder for minorities, who are disproportionately poor, to attend college.

So...we've got "diversitocrats" who are in the business of churning out victims while denying those they supposedly serve educational opportunities and mentoring from anybody who isn't a, oh, black gender-fluid intersectionality, um, "scholar."

Got it.