Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Colleges skimp on science, spend big on diversity

How many times have you heard Barack Obama talk about "investing" in education? Quite a few, if you've been listening to the president at all. - Michael Barone/Washington Examiner

...And what has the money been spent on? Some of it presumably goes to professors in the hard sciences and the great scholars who have made American universities the best in the world. Well and good.

But many university administrators have other priorities. The University of California system has been raising tuitions and cutting departments. But, reports John Leo in the invaluable Minding the Campus blog, its San Diego campus found the money to create a new post of "vice chancellor for equity, diversity and inclusion...." Read the rest.