On December 6, Mark J. Perry of the American Enterprise Institute reported that the Ohio State University spends $13.4 million per annum on payroll for 132 so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion “diversicrats,” mostly making up the staff of the university’s Offices of Institutional Equity, and Diversity and Inclusion.
In his initial tweet, Perry points out that $13.4M would cover in-state tuition for 1,120 students. I respectfully submit that he is emphasizing the wrong point. As a student at Ohio State, I see firsthand the messages that Ohio State’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion endorses and promotes. Its payroll is a much bigger problem than a mere waste of funds. Despite the name, the Office of Diversity and Inclusion promotes neither diversity of thought nor opinion, and indeed seeks to exclude heterodox thinkers and ideas from campus. This $13.4 million of the taxpayers’ and students’ money pays a staff that pushes a hard-left political ideology that brooks no dissent.
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