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Recently, our auditors at OpenTheBooks.com found that the University of Virginia (UVA) employed 235 people in roles related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) costing taxpayers some $20 million for salaries and benefits last year.
Our report broke in the Washington Examiner and made national news. It hit multiple primetime shows on Fox News, the nightly news on the nearly 200 ABC, NBC, CBS, and Fox affiliates of Sinclair Broadcast Group, a retweet by Elon Musk, and a hearing by the US House subcommittee on Education and the Workforce.
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UVA is in the midst of a $1 billion DEI program. Student tuition, progressive third-party foundations, and taxpayer money fund this massive initiative.
However, the tenets of DEI are fundamentally anti-American and radical. DEI is rightly seen as divisive, cutting at the fabric of “E pluribus Unum.”
DEI judges the color of one’s skin, not the content – and competence – of one’s character. Merit and equal opportunity are tossed aside as racist. Instead, a neo-Marxist concept of “equal outcomes” is imposed on all social relationships.
Students, taxpayers and all who care about learning can look to Florida as the beacon of a new day. One may hope that Virginia, the birthplace of our Constitutional republic, home to birth places of individual rights and freedoms in America, will emulate the model.
Adam Andrzejewski is the founder and CEO of OpenTheBooks.com with the mission: “Every Dime, Online, In Real Time.”
Are Coy and President Ryan subject to the University’s Honor Code? If the Honor Code applies to students, it should also apply to faculty and administrators and if they are found to be lying, they should be punished/expelled/fired pursuant to The Honor Code.
There is a reason the Honor Code is brain dead…Can’t blame it all on them, but societally we have strayed far from truth, and UVA is quite comfortable with being deceptive and evasive. To save Democracy!!!
So we are told by Ryan that diversity is a key feature of his efforts to make UVA “great and good” and yet when asked simple questions as to important information as to those employed to effect diversity the UVA communications director either hides, obfuscates or so acts NOT to communicate. And then when Coy does so chose to communicate his clear intent is to misinform rather than accurately inform.So UVA under Ryan, “great and good” in the very simple practice of communication or not so great and good?
I constantly read about DEI within the academic part of the University, but never as it relates to athletics. If DEI is so important why is the athletic part of the University exempt?
After further review of Brian Coy’s CV and current behavior, which being inconsistent with that expected traditionally of a university communications director, I believe a more accurate job title in the Ryan administration would be that of Minister of Propaganda.The shoe or the glove clearly fits better. Shameful.
The message is very carefully controlled and curated.Not much of an idea contest is permitted and the poor few faculty members who aren’t true believers in the false religion of DEI CRT Wokeness know they speak up at the near certainty of career cancellation.