Florida College Bureaucrats ‘Significantly Misreported’ Diversity Initiatives When Pressed By DeSantis, His Office Says

The Florida Governor’s Office Ron DeSantis Thursday was charged. Universities Statistically, this is a huge under-reporting Diversity, equity and inclusion spending after the Republican leader told administrators to provide state lawmakers with the data.

DeSantis was the first to enter a Second term After a landslide victory in re-election, the chief executive of the university asked officials from public universities to produce an annual report. Account As lawmakers examine budget proposals for the next year, they will be examining expenditures related DEI initiatives. He revealed His office will work Tuesday, he said. “eliminate all DEI and Critical Race Theory bureaucracies in the state of Florida” Forcing the departments to “wither on the vine.”

Bryan Griffin, DeSantis Press secretary, informed The Daily Wire that administrators are being charged with accounting for expenditures. “significantly misreported and under-reported” The information.

“These bureaucracies are more interested in protecting their status quo and furthering their agenda rather than delivering a quality education to Florida’s students,” Griffin said that DeSantis would work for him in the notice. “ensure that a full and truthful compilation” These initiatives have been gathered.

For example, the University of Florida completely neglected to report expenditures related to its campus. “Youth Gender Project,” Where are the officials trained? “patients and their families about gender identity development and gender nonconformity and offer services for social and medical transitioning.”

Griffin stated that the programs reported in the end were not final. “revealed an extraordinary misuse of taxpayer dollars to promote a political agenda at the expense of academic focus.” He noted that the chief diversity officer and related support staff at the University of Florida are paid more than $750,000 per year, while the University of Central Florida’s vice president for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and her assistant earn a combined $445,000 annually.

This audit confirms previous revelations about how diversity administrators and consultants can often earn substantial salaries. According to a study, public universities in Michigan and Maryland, Virginia, Virginia, Illinois, and Illinois had diversity officers who earned annual salaries ranging from $329,000 up to $430,000. Report Fox News.

Griffin listed three diversity departments as being included in the list: Florida A&M University’s Center for Environmental Equity and Justice, which costs $1.8million per year; the University of South Florida’s Diversity and Inclusion Office, which costs more $1.1million per year; and Florida International University’s Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, which is over $1,000,000 per year. One of the many DEI initiatives that were funded by taxpayer money was the a spreadsheet called “Antiracist Resources for White People” University of South Florida officials compile the information. The University of South Florida recommends that readers donate to bail funds or examine books by critical race theories such as Robin DiAngelo, Ibram X. Kenti, and Robin DiAngelo.

DeSantis requested that university administrators include a description of each program as well as the total funding for the program. Also, the share of taxpayer funds. He was recently Comment That “DEI bureaucracies” These are “hostile to academic freedom” And “constitute a drain on resources.”

“It really serves as an ideological filter,” DeSantis said that she was witness to the compelled speech, and political pressure that arises on college campuses due to diversity programs. “We probably are the first state that’s 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.”