In this Foolishness…Or Is It? I am taking off my Silly Hat and am donning my Reporter Hat. I am going to just report on what I have read and maybe, just maybe, some bit of foolishness will show its silly head.
My source if information is the Wall Street Journal which reported on what a Heather Mac Donald wrote in www.city-journal.org.
I know about the WSJ but I am not familiar with City Journal or Heather Mac Donald (or why she puts a space between the “Mac” and the “Donald”) but that is okay because neither it nor she is familiar with me.
Heather Mac Donald wrote recently about California’s budget crisis and how a spokesman for the University of California said, “Our campuses and the UC Office of the President already have cut to the bone.” Heather Mac Donald goes on to disagree with this “cut to the bone” contention, when it comes to the area of Diversity.
The following is a quote from her July 14, 2011 article…
“Not only have diversity sinecures been protected from budget cuts, their numbers are actually growing. The University of California at San Diego, for example, is creating a new full-time “vice chancellor for equity, diversity, and inclusion.” This position would augment UC San Diego’s already massive diversity apparatus, which includes the Chancellor’s Diversity Office, the associate vice chancellor for faculty equity, the assistant vice chancellor for diversity, the faculty equity advisors, the graduate diversity coordinators, the staff diversity liaison, the undergraduate student diversity liaison, the graduate student diversity liaison, the chief diversity officer, the director of development for diversity initiatives, the Office of Academic Diversity and Equal Opportunity, the Committee on Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation Issues, the Committee on the Status of Women, the Campus Council on Climate, Culture and Inclusion, the Diversity Council, and the directors of the Cross-Cultural Center, the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Resource Center, and the Women’s Center.”
Whatever happened to Reading, Writing and Arithmetic?
This is the area of any Foolishness…Or Is It? where I say something foolishness or silly or tongue in cheek or smart alecky or wise guyish but this time I am at a loss for words. Could the above quote actually be true. Could their diversity apparatus listing really be that long? I must have made it up…Or did I?
If you want to see if I made the quote up, you can go read the entire article at…
http://www.city-journal.org/2011/cjc0714hm.html
or you could just trust me.
Have I ever kidded u?
Note: For the record, I did not read the entire article. It has 1,762 words and is 17 paragraphs long. I just found the Diversity Explosion Listing, stopped reading and started in on my Blog Posting.
