I attended a "Diversity and Inclusion" conference at PSU last month.
It started off with introducing some of the PSU Administrative Officers charged with "Diversity and Inclusion".
They started listing them off - - - - and after a while I thought "How many are there?"..... and I started writing them down as they were introduced.
I did NOT make note of the beginning of the list... I am guessing that from the time I started writing them down, I got about 1/2 of them.
Here is the (partial) list of officers - I wrote down the name of the office, my stenographer skills did not allow me to keep up with the names as well
- noted:
The heads of:
- Commission on LGBT Equity
- Commission on Diversity
- Assistant Vice Provost for Educational Equity
- Office of Affirmative Action
- Senior Director of Talent Diversity and Inclusion
- Council of College Multi-Cultural Leaders
- Commission for Women
And also "D & I" administrators embedded in the following PSU Bureaucracies:
- Student Affairs
- Human Resources
- Undergraduate Education
- Office of Ethics and Compliance
- Office of Faculty Affairs
I can tell you from PERSONAL experience that nearly all of these roles are also duplicated at the College level (ie - College of Business, College of Engineering, College of Science, etc etc )
If one could truly total all the bureaucratic cost, I would imagine that eliminating them would allow PSU to offer 100% free tuition to every "person of color" or outlier group on campus.
Laugh? Or, Cry?
BTW:
There were some interesting conversations/presentations at the conference - - - - - but I am sure they were NOT the ones the PSU Dog-and-Pony brigade was hoping for.