THE DECLINE OF A CIVILIZATION – AT 3:35 P.M. ET:  What is happening to our once-great colleges is heartbreaking.  At a time when America must grow and be competitive, we're allowing academic thugs to turn our colleges into propaganda factories for Marxism.  From Daily Signal: 

Top public universities pay administrators with jobs related to diversity initiatives an average of  $175,088 per year, substantially more than other professors and faculty members, according to a Campus Reform investigation.

A sheet compiling the salaries of the top diversity administrators at 43 of America’s top public universities shows that virtually all are paid at least $100,000, with some going well beyond $300,000.

The average of $175,088 per year is more than three times the average American’s salary of $44,980. The lowest salary identified by Campus Reform is $83,237, still almost twice as much as the average American salary.

A 2016 report by the American Association of University Professors found that the average professor salary across ranks was $79,424.

In one example, an administrator at Rutgers University named Jorge Schement, vice chancellor of the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, made $253,262 in 2016, while most faculty at Rutgers in 2015 made less than $50,000 a year.

COMMENT:   Why do I feel that much of this is the academic equivalent of organized crime's protection racket.  Universities, in my view, buy protection by bringing in highly paid "diversity" experts who know how to keep the lid on.  Don't go along with the game?  Be prepared for trouble.

I stress that is my feeling, but I suspect that many readers agree with it.

Real professors, especially in the sciences, work so hard to learn their specialty.  And yet they're paid far less than political organizers posing as academics. 

For this students pay $60,000 a year. 

July 15, 2017