Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has issued a requirement that all Florida state university and colleges report expenditures and resources utilized for campus activities related to diversity, equity, and inclusion and critical race theory.
DeSantis made the request in a December 28 memo to provide a comprehensive list of all staff, programs, and campus activities related to these ‘woke’ topics, and to comply with the governor’s request, these state institutions have until January 13, 2023 to detail the costs associated with the administration of each program or activity.
‘Florida is where woke goes to die’, said DeSantis upon his reelection in 2022.
According to a 2021 study by The Heritage Foundation, public university bureaucracies are bloated with DEI staff, who now average 3.4 staff for every 100 tenured faculty.
Florida’s universities did not escape the contagious blight. The University of Florida employed 29 DEI personnel, more than twice the number employed to assist persons with disabilities, as required by law, while Florida State University employed 31 DEI personnel, 3.4 times more than its ADA staff.
The memo likely proved a rather unpleasant late-Christmas present for ideologically radical faculty.
Their holiday dreams of indoctrinating students for another semester were abruptly interrupted by this demand from the governor’s office to write down and reveal all their nefarious schemes.
If they are honest, the governor will likely cut their funding. If they are dishonest, that would give him a justification to cut their funding too.
The Sunshine State is about to pour sunshine into some of its deepest, darkest corners. Other states should not be afraid to emulate this commonsense house-cleaning measure.
-Courtesy Josh Arnold, The Washington Stand
