{"id":907,"date":"2023-02-01T11:18:30","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T16:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=907"},"modified":"2023-02-01T11:18:31","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T16:18:31","slug":"a-drain-on-resources-desantis-announces-war-on-college-diversity-funding-and-deadweight-professors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=907","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A Drain On Resources\u2019: DeSantis Announces War On College Diversity Funding And \u2018Deadweight\u2019 Professors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Gov. Ron DeSantis<\/a> (R-FL) announced that the state of Florida<\/a> would scrap diversity, equity, and inclusion<\/a> funding from public universities<\/a> and increase scrutiny toward underperforming professors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DeSantis, who entered a second term<\/a> as chief executive this month after a landslide re-election victory, recently asked public university administrators to provide a detailed account<\/a> of expenditures related to DEI initiatives as members of the Florida legislature consider budget proposals. He revealed<\/a> on Tuesday that his office would work to \u201celiminate all DEI and CRT bureaucracies in the state of Florida\u201d such that the programs \u201cwither on the vine.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt really serves as an ideological filter,\u201d DeSantis said, noting the compelled speech and political pressure that emerges under the auspices of diversity programs. \u201cWe probably are the first state that\u2019s actually leading by example, but I can tell you those bureaucracies are not representative of what the people of this state and the taxpayers of this state want.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The request from DeSantis regarding DEI initiatives asked university administrators to include a brief description of each program, the total funding used to support the program, and the portion of the funding that came from taxpayer dollars. He added that \u201cDEI bureaucracies\u201d are \u201chostile to academic freedom\u201d and \u201cconstitute a drain on resources.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Consultants and university officials often reap significant financial returns from their promotion of the DEI movement within postsecondary institutions. An analysis<\/a> from the Heritage Foundation found that colleges hire an average of three diversity staffers for every 100 tenured faculty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Previous legislation signed by DeSantis mandates performance reviews of tenured professors every five years. He announced further \u201caccountability for tenured faculty\u201d by granting university presidents and trustees \u201cthe power to call a post-tenure review at any time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe most significant deadweight cost at universities is typically unproductive tenured faculty,\u201d he said. \u201cWhy would we want to saddle you as taxpayers with that cost if we do not have to?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The proposals come after DeSantis appointed<\/a> a number of conservative officials to the New College of Florida Board of Trustees with the hope that the public liberal arts school would likewise eliminate controversial ideologies. Among the appointees were Christopher Rufo, a fellow with the Manhattan Institute and an activist who has vocally opposed critical race theory, as well as Matthew Spalding, a constitutional government professor at Hillsdale College.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DeSantis stressed promoting curricula that emphasize the values and philosophy of Western civilization; he also discussed the need for Florida to offer training courses for nurses, truck drivers, and other professions with shortages in the state and national economies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou see the growth of administrative bloat around the country with higher education, and it dwarfs what they are spending on people who actually teach our students. \u2026 They are not really improving the academic performance,\u201d he commented. \u201cThey are expanding bureaucrats and administrative staff and trying to impose an agenda through that way. That is a failed model, and we want to make sure that\u2019s not what\u2019s happening here in the state of Florida.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DeSantis has also sounded the alarm over the College Board\u2019s forthcoming AP African American Studies curriculum. One version of the course\u00a0included<\/a>\u00a0black queer theory and invited students to consider the merits of abolishing prisons. The Florida Department of Education, which mandates traditional black history in public schools,\u00a0blasted<\/a>\u00a0the material as \u201ccontrary to Florida law and significantly lacks educational value\u201d and called on the College Board to make the content \u201chistorically accurate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Original Article: https:\/\/freedomalerts.com\/2023\/01\/31\/a-drain-on-resources-desantis-announces-war-on-college-diversity-funding-and-deadweight-professors\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) announced that the state of Florida would scrap diversity, equity, and inclusion funding from public universities and increase scrutiny toward underperforming professors. DeSantis, who entered a second term as chief executive this month after a landslide re-election victory, recently asked public university administrators to provide a detailed account of expenditures related to DEI initiatives as members of the Florida legislature consider budget proposals. He revealed on Tuesday that his office would work to \u201celiminate all DEI and CRT bureaucracies in the state of Florida\u201d such that the programs \u201cwither on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":908,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions\/908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}