{"id":1833160,"date":"2023-02-02T16:19:29","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T21:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1833160"},"modified":"2023-02-02T16:20:06","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T21:20:06","slug":"florida-college-bureaucrats-significantly-misreported-diversity-initiatives-when-pressed-by-desantis-his-office-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-college-bureaucrats-significantly-misreported-diversity-initiatives-when-pressed-by-desantis-his-office-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida College Bureaucrats \u2018Significantly Misreported\u2019 Diversity Initiatives When Pressed By DeSantis, His Office Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><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%2Fflorida-college-bureaucrats-significantly-misreported-diversity-initiatives-when-pressed-by-desantis-his-office-says%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=1833160&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>The Florida Governor&#8217;s Office\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dailywire.com\/topic\/ron-desantis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ron DeSantis<\/a>\u00a0Thursday was charged. <a href=\"http:\/\/dailywire.com\/topic\/colleges\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Universities<\/a> Statistically, this is a huge under-reporting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-dei\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Diversity, equity and inclusion<\/a> spending after the Republican leader told administrators to provide state\u00a0lawmakers with the data.<\/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> After a landslide victory in re-election, the chief executive of the university asked officials from public universities to produce an annual report. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/desantis-puts-woke-colleges-on-notice-tells-them-to-hand-over-diversity-receipts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Account<\/a> As lawmakers examine budget proposals for the next year, they will be examining expenditures related DEI initiatives. 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 Critical Race Theory bureaucracies in the state of Florida\u201d Forcing the departments to \u201cwither on the vine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bryan Griffin, DeSantis Press secretary, informed The Daily Wire that administrators are being charged with accounting for expenditures. \u201csignificantly misreported and under-reported\u201d The information.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese bureaucracies are more interested in protecting their status quo and furthering their agenda rather than delivering a quality education to Florida\u2019s students,\u201d Griffin said that DeSantis would work for him in the notice. \u201censure that a full and truthful compilation\u201d These initiatives have been gathered.<\/p>\n<p>For example, the University of Florida completely neglected to report expenditures related to its campus. \u201cYouth Gender Project,\u201d Where are the officials trained?\u00a0\u201cpatients and their families about gender identity development and gender nonconformity and offer services for social and medical transitioning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Griffin stated that the programs reported in the end were not final. \u201crevealed an extraordinary misuse of taxpayer dollars to promote a political agenda at the expense of academic focus.\u201d 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\u2019s vice president for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and her assistant earn a combined $445,000 annually.<\/p>\n<p>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. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/college-diversity-inclusion-officers-rake-sky-high-salaries-debt-saddled-students-face-rising-costs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Report<\/a> Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>Griffin listed three diversity departments as being included in the list: Florida A&#038;M University&#8217;s Center for Environmental Equity and Justice, which costs $1.8million per year; the University of South Florida&#8217;s Diversity and Inclusion Office, which costs more $1.1million per year; and Florida International University&#8217;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 <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/u\/0\/d\/15ns8KL08fZK9rGXR8m5Dn_JJHY_BUIjc77Bl5GNLi6Q\/htmlview?urp=gmail_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spreadsheet<\/a> called \u201cAntiracist Resources for White People\u201d 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.<\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/a-drain-on-resources-desantis-announces-war-on-college-diversity-funding-and-deadweight-professors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Comment<\/a> That \u201cDEI bureaucracies\u201d These are \u201chostile to academic freedom\u201d And \u201cconstitute a drain on resources.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt really serves as an ideological filter,\u201d DeSantis said that she was witness to the compelled speech, and political pressure that arises on college campuses due to 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The office of Florida Governor\u00a0Ron DeSantis\u00a0charged Thursday that state universities drastically under-reported diversity, equity, and inclusion spending after the Republican leader told administrators to provide state\u00a0lawmakers with the data. DeSantis, who entered a second term as chief executive last month after a landslide re-election victory, asked public university officials to produce an account of expenditures &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":1833163,"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":[17425,9393,4023,4980,6759,5113,13239,7491,5660,6059],"class_list":["post-1833160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-significantly","tag-bureaucrats","tag-college","tag-desantis","tag-diversity","tag-florida","tag-initiatives","tag-misreported","tag-office","tag-pressed"],"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\/1833160","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=1833160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1833163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1833160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1833160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1833160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}