The University of Michigan has built a sprawling diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) bureaucracy, which now boasts over 500 jobs dedicated to advancing the agenda, and costs the university more than $30 million every year according to an analysis by one of its own professors.
The university has at least 241 employees whose main duties “are to provide DEI programming and services as either their exclusive or primary job responsibility,” according to an analysis conducted by Mark Perry, an economics professor at the University of Michigan-Flint, on behalf of The College Fix reveals.
Full-time DEI staff at the university cost the institution an estimated $30.68 million every year, with $23.34 million for staff salaries and another $7.44 million for benefits. The total sum could pay for in-state tuition and fees for 1,781 undergraduate students, according to Perry, who is also a…