Politically Correct
By Mitch Berg
John Anderson at Youth for Western Civilization notes that the U of M Duluth is spending lots and lots of taxpayer money enforcing political correctness:
At the end of September, while engaged in public campus outreach at University of Minnesota-Duluth, a conservative activist handing out Constitutions was both threatened by a self proclaimed Black Panther and harassed by the Director of the Office of Cultural Diversity, Susana Pelayo-Woodward. The Black Panthers are, in the grand scheme of things, small timers who rely on intimidation by street activists but don’t have much of any real influence on society. Susana Pelayo-Woodward is another matter, an administrator with an entire bureaucracy behind her. The question is what are Minnesota taxpayers getting out of this?
The piece answers that – read the whole, infuriating thing.
Of course you’re paying for it:
Overall, the Office of Cultural Diversity at the University of Minnesota-Duluth, a branch campus of the University of Minnesota with less than 10,000 undergraduates, has a budget of $656,770 for this year. $32,572 of this amount is taken from students in the form of mandatory student fees they must pay on top of tuition costs, and nearly all of the rest comes from Minnesota taxpayers.
Ms. Pelayo-Woodward makes over six figures, with benefits…to do what?
For the most part, the Office of Cultural Diversity is an employment program for aging leftist activists without marketable job skills like Susana Pelayo-Woodward. Salaries and benefits for full time staff make up two thirds of the budget, and much of the rest is comprised of travel reimbursements for staff, salaries for student employees, and ‘professional services’ from leftists which are not employed full time. Only $1000 is spent on student assistance, an amount marginally higher than the phone bill of $775.
Read the whole thing.
October 18th, 2011 at 7:20 am
There must be one of Berg’s Laws to explain this. The longer and more unpronounceable a hypenated name, the larger the odds the owner is a lefty whack job.
October 18th, 2011 at 8:00 am
Great work if you can get it. I wonder how the white, middle class male is represented in her office.
October 18th, 2011 at 9:43 am
GolfDoc: See “#1” in the list here: http://www.topfive.com/arcs/t5060199.shtml
I think you’re on to something.
Kerm: We could take bets…
October 18th, 2011 at 9:43 am
I wonder how the white, middle class male is represented in her office.
Probably as an effigy punching bag in the corner, or as a face on a dart board.
October 18th, 2011 at 9:53 am
Director of the Office of Cultural Diversity? That’s a long title that really fills up an eco-friendly business card. I propose that they become more efficient and recycle a perfectly good and completely descriptive title: “Political Officer”.
October 18th, 2011 at 10:26 am
“Politruk” is even more efficient.
October 18th, 2011 at 12:16 pm
Commisar is even shorter than Political Officer, and it’s a lot scarier.
October 18th, 2011 at 12:33 pm
I will believe that Big Education really values diversity when conservative Christian Republicans start getting placed as instructors in Social Work, Anthropology, etc departments.
A couple of National Review writers say they became conservatives after being in Big Education and seeing how narrow minded and bigoted the left is. I know a guy who became a right wing Republican after spending one semester in grad school at UMD.
October 18th, 2011 at 4:01 pm
And there was a story last year about a Christian student who was essentially asked to leave the Counseling degree program they were enrolled in because their beliefs were inconsistent with the professional standards of the field. I used to have that article around here somewhere; I’ll try to lay my hands on it again.
October 18th, 2011 at 6:31 pm
I heard her office is Room 101.
October 18th, 2011 at 8:06 pm
Susana Pelayo-Woodward-O’Brien.