{"id":50809,"date":"2020-01-22T12:36:18","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T20:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/world.edu\/?p=50809"},"modified":"2020-01-22T12:36:18","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T20:36:18","slug":"new-campus-commissar-departmental-academic-diversity-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.edu\/new-campus-commissar-departmental-academic-diversity-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"New Campus Commissar: Departmental Academic Diversity Officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-50810\" src=\"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/DEI-work.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"569\" srcset=\"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/DEI-work.png 680w, https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/DEI-work-250x209.png 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>UMich is currently paying <strong>$10.6 million each year<\/strong>(!!!) for its 82 \u201cdiversity officers,\u201d MLive reported. Further scholarships and a new $10 million multicultural center are all part of a five-year strategic plan, launched in 2016 to diversify the campus.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211;the Vice-Provost alone rakes in over 400k a year\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve written before of the incredible high price of diversity, and the diversity educrats who make bank pushing their ideology on campus. Now, usually these guys collect their fat checks and sit in glorious palaces on campus, so mercifully most faculty and students don\u2019t have to interact with them except when sent to a re-education camp or the like.<\/p>\n<p>Making money is all well and good, but it is harder to indoctrinate when you\u2019re sitting in palace. Also, a palace puts a hard population cap on just how many commissars you can have on campus. What to do about these problems?<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2019\/12\/06\/michigan-shares-insights-academic-level-not-chief-diversity-officers\">University of Michigan shares insights from its decentralized diversity accountability structure, in which individual academic and administrative units have their own diversity officers.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s right, UMich has taken the \u201cbold\u201d step of imitating the USSR, and embedding the commissars into each unit. No department is safe, as now one of these guys is looking over the shoulder of whatever goes on there.<\/p>\n<p>However did universities survive centuries before we ever had such an \u201cinnovation\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>Michigan has had these commissars pushing their thoughts for four years now, so it\u2019s time to see what the results are:<\/p>\n<p><em>More precisely, the campus\u2019s National Center for Institutional Diversity just published a <a href=\"https:\/\/quod.lib.umich.edu\/c\/currents\/17387731.0001.111?view=text;rgn=main\">report<\/a> on the experiences of these academic diversity officers, or ADOs. Beyond making various recommendations for academic deans and academic diversity officers, the report finds that ADOs require special skills.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpecial skills\u201d? Uh huh. Be advised that this Academic Diversity Officer initiative expands the bureaucracy on campus by a very significant amount ($10 mil a year!), so you can expect the campus to publish a very glowing report about how amazing the campus\u2019 own initiative is.<\/p>\n<p>Based on their backgrounds, ADOs tended to draw on different \u201clogics,\u201d according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>Ah, the old \u201cdifferent ways of knowing\u201d canard. At least in the USSR, you could count on the Commissar to reliably know quotes from the Communist Manifesto. Granted, that book is still the <a href=\"https:\/\/world.edu\/top-college-economist-marx\/\">most common book on campus<\/a>, so I suppose you still could but\u2026does it bother anyone that this supposedly \u201ccorrect\u201d ideology is enforced to different \u201clogics\u201d depending on the commissar?<\/p>\n<p>The logics were basically broken down into four types (a surprisingly large number, from a mathematician\u2019s point of view which holds there is only one correct logic), \u201ccommunity organizer,\u201d \u201cfaculty,\u201d \u201cadministrator,\u201d and \u201cstudent.\u201d A quick comment on each type:<\/p>\n<p><em>Community organizers-turned-ADOs generally valued\u2026some tension to create diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>To summarize: the community organizers know they need to justify their position, so instead of the happy campus there was before, they work to increase racial tensions. Hmm. The students\/taxpayers are paying for the protests here.<\/p>\n<p><em>Faculty ADOs in the sample, meanwhile, worked on issues of representation, such as faculty and student recruitment and retention, and inclusive pedagogical training. They prioritized data collection\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Again, easily summarized. The faculty tried to figure out what percent of representation would satisfy the ideologues (nothing will, however), tried to reach that, and backed up their claims with objective data. Of course they did, they know this is rubbish, but mandatory, and so did what they could finish up and get back to doing legitimate work.<\/p>\n<p><em>ADOs from general administration had \u201clatent qualities about methodically addressing issues through structure, processes and rules.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Heh, \u201clatent qualities.\u201d This is just a very polite way for the study to say they couldn\u2019t see any benefit to administrators, and past that is just spewing administrative-sounding words.<\/p>\n<p><em>Student affairs-minded ADOs made personal connections and focused on promoting inclusive communities.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>They made some friends and connections, the better to further their career. Good activity for a student, at least.<\/p>\n<p>Pop quiz: which of these four types of \u201clogic\u201d actually helps students on campus? (Hint: none).<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re spending over $10,000,000 a year on diversity at UMich. That\u2019s full ride scholarships for a thousand students, more like 5,000 students when actual costs of education are considered. There I go again, thinking like an educator again. It\u2019s just such a colossal waste of money.<\/p>\n<p>After 4 years of this, was any improvement shown at all? Nope. Let\u2019s sit back and laugh at all the effort they put into justifying wasting $40,000,000 over 4 years for this:<\/p>\n<p><em>Whatever their backgrounds, knowledge of DEI concepts, interventions and best practices were \u201cnecessary to create change,\u201d the authors found.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Uh, nope. I could spend $40,000,000 to bulldoze the whole place and turn it into a parking lot. That\u2019s change. Is it good? A matter of opinion, and they don\u2019t even bother to justify if the changes, if any, were any good.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI feel like we will do DEI work a disservice if people that don\u2019t have proper training come into doing this work, because then it leads to this assumption that anybody can do it, or we can just hire a grad student, and they can lead this charge. When really, I feel like it requires specific skills and competencies.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Too bad the report just demonstrated anybody can do it, because every ADO could do whatever he wanted, all versions of \u201clogic\u201d are legitimate, and all \u201cchange\u201d is apparently good.<\/p>\n<p><em>DEI work is \u201ccomplex, difficult, always changing and rigorous,\u201d reads the report. \u201cThe hiring process and ongoing professional development necessary to sustain and increase DEI competency should be encouraged by supervisors of ADOs.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Again, no\u2026it\u2019s already been demonstrated anyone can do this. The cry for \u201congoing professional development\u201d is particularly noxious, as already far too many of our administrative staff go on long distance junkets, all expenses paid, for \u201cjob training\u201d for jobs which used to be temp positions changed out every couple of years.<\/p>\n<p><em>Establishing \u201clegitimacy\u201d for their positions and in the eyes of colleagues concerned ADOs interviewed. The officers generally found two ways of building it: connecting with their units through a shared discipline, or by being a faculty member &#8212; what the authors call &#8220;academic standing legitimacy.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I agree, establishing legitimacy should be tough, since it\u2019s clearly not legitimate and a massive, massive, waste of funds. Why is there no consideration at all of what that kind of money could have done to help students?<\/p>\n<p><em>These officers also rely heavily on interpersonal skills. That\u2019s regardless of their academic backgrounds. They respond to individuals\u2019 needs and concerns,<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The above could apply to nearly every job on the planet. I again point out this money could have given full scholarships to thousands of students. I bet the taxpayers would have preferred that by a wide margin. Any legitimate study of installing diversity commissars in every department should have weighed the benefits (none found) against free higher education for thousands of the citizens paying for it (questionable, but probably better than \u201cnone found\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>In the coming years, based on this study, expect other schools to adopt this new method of instilling commissars in every department and fiefdom on campus\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.professorconfess.blogspot.com\">www.professorconfess.blogspot.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UMich is currently paying $10.6 million each year(!!!) for its 82 \u201cdiversity officers,\u201d MLive reported. 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