{"id":1830470,"date":"2023-01-31T13:34:30","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T18:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1830470"},"modified":"2023-01-31T13:34:58","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T18:34:58","slug":"a-drain-on-resources-desantis-announces-war-on-college-diversity-funding-and-deadweight-professors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-drain-on-resources-desantis-announces-war-on-college-diversity-funding-and-deadweight-professors\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A Drain On Resources\u2019: DeSantis Announces War On College Diversity Funding And \u2018Deadweight\u2019 Professors"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fa-drain-on-resources-desantis-announces-war-on-college-diversity-funding-and-deadweight-professors%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1830470&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Gov. <a href=\"http:\/\/dailywire.com\/topic\/ron-desantis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ron DeSantis<\/a> (R-FL), declared that the state <a href=\"http:\/\/dailywire.com\/topic\/florida\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Florida<\/a> Would you scrap? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-dei\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Diversity, equity and inclusion<\/a> Finance from the public <a href=\"http:\/\/dailywire.com\/topic\/colleges\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Universities<\/a> Increase scrutiny for underperforming professors<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis was the first to enter a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/freedom-lives-here-ron-desantis-sworn-in-for-second-term-as-florida-governor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Second term<\/a> Following a landslide win, I recently asked the chief executive of a public university to provide an explanation. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/desantis-puts-woke-colleges-on-notice-tells-them-to-hand-over-diversity-receipts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A detailed account<\/a> In Florida, members of the legislature are required to consider budget proposals. He <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovRonDeSantis\/status\/1620439246883688448\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">revealed<\/a> His office will work Tuesday, he said. \u201celiminate all DEI and CRT bureaucracies in the state of Florida\u201d So that the programs \u201cwither on the vine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt really serves as an ideological filter,\u201d DeSantis noted the political pressure and forced speech that arises under the auspices 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<p>DeSantis asked university administrators to provide a brief description about each program, the amount of funding used for that program and the percentage of funding that was provided by taxpayer money. He also said that \u201cDEI bureaucracies\u201d These are \u201chostile to academic freedom\u201d And \u201cconstitute a drain on resources.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Consultants and university administrators often reap large financial rewards from their promotion for the DEI movement within postsecondary educational institutions. An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/education\/report\/diversity-university-dei-bloat-the-academy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Analysis<\/a> According to the Heritage Foundation, colleges employ an average of three diversity workers for every 100 tenured professors.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis previously signed legislation mandating performance reviews for tenured faculty members every five years. He made further announcements \u201caccountability for tenured faculty\u201d By granting university trustees and presidents \u201cthe power to call a post-tenure review at any time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe most significant deadweight cost at universities is typically unproductive tenured faculty,\u201d He stated. \u201cWhy would we want to saddle you as taxpayers with that cost if we do not have to?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis is the one who proposed them. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/desantis-mounts-anti-woke-offensive-at-public-florida-college\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nominated<\/a> A number of conservative officials were appointed to the New College of Florida Board of Trustees in the hope that it would also eliminate controversial ideologies. Christopher Rufo (a Manhattan Institute Fellow and an activist who has voiced opposition to critical race theory) was one of the appointees. Matthew Spalding, a Hillsdale College professor in constitutional government, was also among them.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis highlighted the importance of creating curricula that reflect the philosophy and values of Western civilization. He also mentioned the need to provide training courses in Florida for truck drivers, nurses, and other professions that are under-represented in the state&#8217;s economy and state.<\/p>\n<p>\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<p>DeSantis has also sounded the alarm over the College Board\u2019s forthcoming AP African American Studies curriculum. The course is offered in one version. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/illinois-governor-backs-including-black-queer-theory-other-controversial-lessons-in-african-american-studies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Inclusion<\/a> Students were invited to think about the benefits of abolishing prisons and black queer theory. Florida Department of Education mandates traditional black history to be taught in public schools. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/contrary-to-florida-law-desantis-rejects-high-school-course-emerging-nationwide-over-wokeness-concerns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Blasted<\/a> Material as \u201ccontrary to Florida law and significantly lacks educational value\u201d Appelled the College Board for the publication of the content \u201chistorically accurate.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":1759000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[17132,7197,4156,4023,4980,6759,6614,6513,8169,16650,6696],"class_list":["post-1830470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-deadweight","tag-a","tag-announces","tag-college","tag-desantis","tag-diversity","tag-drain","tag-funding","tag-professors","tag-resources","tag-war"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1830470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1759000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1830470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1830470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1830470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}