How UVA’s $20 Million DEI Deal Hurts Students

The University of Virginia is under fire for spending tens of millions on Marxist DEI philosophies. Rather than uphold the academic ideals of its founder, Thomas Jefferson, UVA made national headlines  for shelling out an estimated $20 million to pay for 235 DEI employees.

When the University of Florida recently ended its whole DEI program it freed up around $5 million. UVA’s DEI spending is quadruple that amount, and the money comes largely from taxpayers and their own students. 

The watchdog group openthebooks.com, who first discovered UVA’s DEI spending, pointed out that it would take full tuition payments from 1000 college undergrads to pay these DEI  “experts”.

This reckless spending was brought up in a US House committee hearing, and Elon Musk retweeted a story about it, saying:

“Parents with kids about to go to college must look very carefully at the spending of these schools. Considering UVA’s cost of admission we wonder, is this where all the money goes?”

Fox News reported that one of the DEI officers at UVA was paid a higher salary than the university president. This is why our colleges are more expensive than they need to be: as a wave of people with degrees in gender and racial studies graduate into the workplace, more and more employers are creating this artificial career field. It is maddening that tax  dollars  and parents will be paying these tuition prices and the salaries of these DEI officers.   

We hope alumni supporting their alma mater carefully consider whether or not to send  their  checks  to  UVA  when  this  is  the  kind  of  school  that  they're  developing.  Instead of funding meaningless quotas which do nothing to advance the academic achievement of any minority group or underrepresented demographic, alumni must help UVA get back on track with their legacy of freedom, opportunity, and respect.

With UVA’s irresponsible spending out in the open we can start making a difference.

Governor Youngkin recently vetoed regulations that would have enforced these DEI type of requirements on private companies. Governor DeSantis also drew a similar bold line with companies adopting what he called corporate wokeness.

We want to be a Commonwealth that supports merit and supports innovative companies. We've seen how DEI is not helpful to quality in the airline industry just to name one.

We want to hire people to do the best job. Those might be people who happen to be women  or  who  happen  to  be  of  different  ethnicities, but we want companies that want the best. We are pleased that Governor Youngkin has been paying attention to this.

Another battle taking place at the Capitol is the war over so called “games of skill” in convenience stores.  This is possibly one of the biggest battles of session skill games, as they call them - Basically slot machines.

This bill would put these machines inside your local convenience stores restaurants, and thousands and thousands of truck stops. 

The people who are addicted in your community will have more access to gambling. That is devastating for them and their families. The bill’s Orwellian name is the Virginia Small Business Economic Development Act.

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