A reader, commenting on my earlier post in which I noted that Washington State University has “a Chief Diversity Officer with a full-time staff of fifty-five and a three million dollar annual budget”:

[Reader] You’re aware aren’t you that “diversity” has replaced the words “personnel” or “human resources”? Yes a personnel office with 55 employees may be bloated, but there is a certain amount of paperwork that has to be processed there, relating to benefits and whatnot.

[Derb] I wouldn’t rule out the possibility that there may be places where the Human Resources department has been renamed “Diversity.” However, this appears not to be the case at WSU, whose website lists BOTH a Diversity office AND one for Human Resources.