What is the University Diversity Scam? | 5 Minute Video

America's campuses, particularly those in California, spend tens of millions of dollars on administrators and programs to combat issues like sexism, homophobia, and racism on campus. But are these problems in any way prevalent at our universities? Or is this diversity bureaucracy a big waste of money? Heather Mac Donald of the Manhattan Institute explains.

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Are colleges across America rife with racism, sexism, and homophobia?

If you answer, "No, that's absurd," you probably have a fair amount of common sense. If you answer, yes, you are probably a college administrator.

Wait, you might ask, college administrators accuse their own schools of being racist, sexist and homophobic? How does that make any sense?

To understand how a college administrator thinks, you must first, as the popular saying goes, "follow the money." If you do, you will not only discover why college administrators declare their own colleges racist, sexist and homophobic, but also why, if you're a student, your tuition keeps going up, and why, if you're a parent, your bank balance keeps going down.

Here's a how it works. If colleges are racist, sexist and homophobic, the only way to change that, if you're a college administrator, is to create a massive diversity bureaucracy. And that, of course, is massively expensive.

No institution provides a more vivid example than the University of California, a once great university system which is self-destructing in the name of diversity.

The diversity ideology has encroached upon every aspect of the University of California's collective psyche and mission. It is the one constant in every university endeavor; it impinges on hiring, distorts the curriculum, and sucks up vast amounts of faculty time and taxpayer money.

Even the university's ongoing budget problems have not touched it. Since 2010 UC San Francisco, UC San Diego, and UCLA have all created new vice chancellorships in diversity, equity, and inclusion, with salaries starting at a quarter million dollars a year or higher.

Each of these new posts is wildly redundant. Yet each new diversity position inevitably generates an even greater surge of junior bureaucrats, all sucking in tuition dollars.

In 2011, UC Berkeley's vice chancellor for equity and inclusion presided over a staff of 17; yet, just one year later, his staff had ballooned to 24. No wonder the number of administrators at the University of California almost equals that of the faculty.

Here's an only partial list of the diversity bureaucracy at UC San Diego.

The associate vice chancellor for faculty equity

The assistant vice chancellor for diversity

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 director of the Cross-Cultural Center

The director of the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Resource Center,

The director of the Women's Center.

These diversity bureaucrats place nonstop pressure on departments to hire on the basis of race, gender and sexual preference.

Their trick is to set the hiring bar low enough to scoop in more female and minority candidates, and then declare that anyone above that bar is "qualified enough" to trump the most qualified candidate, when that candidate is a white or Asian male.

But sometimes even that evisceration of standards isn't enough. In that case, the Administration simply creates a new hiring category.

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