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[–] famskiis@vlemmy.net 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What an offensively misleading headline. ~$15.6m a year for employee salaries that only deal with diversity issues is INSANE. Especially with taxpayer money. Sorry y’all but these cuts are a good thing.

[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The UW system has approximately 39,000 staff, assuming that 0.5% is diversity (1 out of every 200), and that's about the right $

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Wisconsin_System

[–] sergio@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Is that insane? I don't know much about university funding, how does that compare to other academic departments and athletics?

[–] zhunk 1 points 1 year ago

Does that include funding for their Institute for Diversity Science and the research they do?