That’s the topic of this Inside Higher Ed article today, and my posted suggestion is that, if we’re going to have these offices at all, the officer should have some knowledge of the civil-rights laws. That’s precisely because so much of the diversity agenda (that is, the parts that involve treating student and faculty applicants differently on the basis of race, ethnicity, and sex) is inconsistent with the text of those laws. I cite the ongoing Fisher v. University of Texas litigation and an earlier discussion I wrote about the problems with faculty discrimination in the name of diversity.