Audit Finds U. Wisconsin System Spent Tens of Millions of Dollars on DEI Activities
“none of the UW institutions centrally tracked the total amounts spent specifically to implement the activities”
Consider the scale of the spending here. Tens of millions? DEI truly became an industry in higher education.
The College Fix reports:
U. Wisconsin system spent tens of millions of dollars on 1,200+ DEI activities: audit
The University of Wisconsin system spent tens of millions of dollars on over 1,200 “diversity, equity, and inclusion” activities in recent years, a new legislative audit revealed.
Medical advocacy group Do No Harm and a Wisconsin state representative told The College Fix this ideology is diminishing the value of education and wasting taxpayer money.
The Wisconsin Legislative Audit Bureau reviewed Board of Regents meeting minutes, contacted all 14 UW institutions and 15 related organizations, analyzed expenditure and staffing data, and assessed compliance with recent policies to evaluate DEI activities and costs.
It found that “UW institutions listed a total of 1,263 activities for the period from January 2020 through April 2024,” the audit states. However, “none of the UW institutions centrally tracked the total amounts spent specifically to implement the activities.”
Moreover, the universities “spent $40.2 million on offices with job duties pertaining to [DEI]” during the fiscal year 2023-24.
They also spent $12.5 million in staffing costs for 170 positions with similar duties and an estimated $7.9 million on inclusion-focused plans. These amounts “cannot be summed,” as some “overlap multiple types of costs,” the audit states.
These practices include “a professional development program to support the promotion and retention of diverse faculty,” special services for “underrepresented groups,” plans to include “[DEI] competencies in curricula,” and efforts to “recruit and retain a more-diverse student body and workforce.”
The institutions will assess their programs in response to the findings, UW system President Jay Rothman stated in a letter included in the audit.
“The UWs look forward to evaluating this work to assist in ensuring that as we continue to look forward, our student support programs reflect a responsible use of funding and lead to our ultimate and measurable performance outcomes of successfully educating, retaining and graduating students,” Rothman stated.
Also in response to the audit, a University of Wisconsin-Madison spokesman told The Fix the school appreciates “the Legislative Audit Bureau’s efforts to understand our work to create an environment in which all members of our community are able to reach their full potential.”
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wi is communist led with only moments where maga has a chance
No one should be surprised by this. The worse part is that is a state school so the taxpayers are paying for all this garbage.
We need to scrap the entire system of public schools. Sounds radical? They are stealing money from the county and FAILING to EDUCATE our youth. From kindergarten up it has become a fraud on taxpayers. That’s pretty radical too.
Make Education Great Again by kicking out the Marxists and uprooting their indoctrination.
Used to be if you wanted your kids educated you did it yourself. We have been made stupid by public education’s incompetence and infantilized by relying on ‘someone else’ to do this important, immediate duty for us. Everyone (including myself) feels some sense of relief when an arduous task is lifted from us, and look what happened. Decades of passing the buck got us a huge mess. Looks impossible. Everything is so entrenched.
Now there’s AI and really good online courses. A fair definition of successfully achieving the goals of K-12 education is being able to do OK on the SAT. It tests basic math, reading comprehension, and even the grammar that our new-age English teachers refuse to teach.
And there are free online tutoring courses thru some well known guy (you probably know the name but it slips my mind at the moment) that teach exactly that. Skipping all the stuff that really doesn’t matter, but using modern online tech to teach what does.
Why aren’t we doing that instead of much of what we do in K-12?
Agree. My increasingly diverse (now with many children of illegal aliens who mow the lawns around here) public school district has fewer and fewer total students, even counting the children of the illegals who tend to require intensive special language and other instruction.
Since the population of students is going down, are they reducing staff size and the budget? No, spending continues to increase, and every candidate for this year’s school board wants to spend MORE money.
F this system. At least have the school elections together with November election day, so that the people paying the taxes vote. I can assure there’s a massive get out the vote movement among those who pay little to no tax but have children in the district requiring lots of remedial services.
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