Gotta link to Peter Wood’s latest piece at NRO. A snippet:

The gift of diversity keeps on giving. This just in from West Lafayette, Indiana, via the South Bend Tribune: the president of Purdue University, Martin Jischke, declares that diversity “is part of everything we do. I believe we are succeeding, and we are succeeding because we are aggressive.”
How aggressive? Since 2001-2002, 57 percent of new faculty hires have been members of minority groups or women. If you are counting — and rest assured the folks at Purdue are counting — of 794 faculty hires, 170 are Asian, 32 black, and 28 Hispanic. You might think this tells you nothing at all about the quality of education at Purdue, but Purdue’s interim associate dean for diversity and international programs, Richard Widdows, would beg to differ. Says he: “Purdue students are going to be interacting with people from all over the world. The more they are exposed to that now, the better.”
I don’t want to fuss about this. Folks like President Jischke and Interim Associate Dean Widdows are my meal ticket. If it weren’t for their certain stolid dim-wittedness in persistently confusing counting people by ethnic labels with creating the conditions for genuine learning, this fine subject for satire would have vanished long ago. As it is, the Purdue contingent of the “diversity-trumps-all” brigade has found the usual sad-sack students who, lacking any actual intellectual horizon, enthusiastically wave their little rainbow flags. Luke Wadowick is a freshman in hospitality and tourism management who “immediately joined the National Society of Minorities in Hospitality.” Like many members of the society, he is not a “minority,” just a lover of diversity. Go get ‘em Luke.