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The University of California, San Diego has done it again. Last year, it announced the creation of a new diversity sinecure: a vice chancellor for equity, diversity, and inclusion. Campus leaders established this post even as state budget cuts resulted in the loss of star scientists to competing universities, as humanities classes and degree programs were eliminated to save money, and as tuition continued its nearly 75 percent, five-year rise. The new vice chancellorship was wildly redundant with UCSD�s already-existing diversity infrastructure. As the campus itself acknowledges: �UC San Diego currently has many active diversity programs and initiatives.� No kidding. A partial list of those �active diversity programs and initiatives� may be accessed here.

Now UCSD has filled the position and announced the new vice chancellor�s salary. Linda Greene, a diversity bureaucrat and law professor from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will pull in $250,000 a year in regular salary, but that�s just the beginning: she�ll receive both a relocation allowance of $60,000 and 100 percent reimbursement of all moving expenses, a temporary housing allowance of $13,500, two fully paid house-hunting trips for two to the San Diego area, and reimbursement for all business visits to the campus before her start date in January 2013. (By comparison, an internationally known expert in opto-electronics in UCSD�s engineering school, whose recent work has focused on cancer nanotechnology, received a little over $150,000 in salary from UCSD in 2011, according to state databases.) The UCSD press office did not respond to a request for the amount the university paid the �women-owned executive search firm with a diverse consulting team� it used to find Greene.

More of the big business-model of university management that was made popular in Reagan era. Lots of very highly paid administrators were one result.

Good to know it's all the Republicans' fault.

Looks like UCSD's loss is UWM's gain (if UWM had enough sense to leave the vacated position empty - and with Walker at the helm, I'd say chances are better 'n' good).


"a vice chancellor for equity, diversity, and inclusion."

Good ridance.

-signed,

Wisconsin taxpayer

Sure, if it makes you feel better.

More of the big business-model of university management that was made popular in Reagan era.
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That's a interesting irrelevant stretch. How'd you get there? Better yet,what support do you have for such a comment?

Lots of years in a bunch of universities.

Bob liberals don't need facts to support their comments

Had he'll getting a degree, huh?

You really need to go back further and kick Chris Columbus in the nuts for even bringing the white man to the America's.

The Reagan era model did not call for the extremes seen today in some situations. It called for paying someone according to what they contributed to the success of the organization. This seems to be a good idea gone crazy. This is not unlike many similar programs that started out as worthy ideas but became grotesque when applied to extremes.

Mining schools beat Harvard

Exactly. Just like big business has top CEOs being paid ridiculous money with huge parachutes attached. It was all well intended, and then got out of hand. Big time.

Private business = private dollars.

Education = public dollars.

It's really not difficult.

in other words, the business model sucks for University management - we agree.

Diversity is fraud.

I know at least one, no make that two, California university graduates that are not idiots.

In the only words, they're non-comperable. Quit worrying 'bout "the other guy", and focus on what's relevant.

Put another way, there isn't a damn thing the public can (or should) be able to do in influencing private business affairs - other than choose to subsidize, or not. In matters of public affairs, the taxpayer not only has the ability, they have a duty to effect the affiars of public institutions.

For far too long the inmates have been running the assylym. There's a new sheriff in town, and he drinks TEA.

affect not effect.

you must be a UC product, eh

Again, quit worrying 'bout the other guy.

It's having a bad effect.