The University of Texas (UT) and The Ohio State University (OSU) are both pouring millions of dollars into diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, a recent report found.

The two schools are scheduled to face off Friday in the Cotton Bowl, which will determine which team advances to the NCAA Championship on Jan. 20. Although both schools boast impressive football programs, both taxpayer-funded universities are guilty of: It spends millions of dollars on salaries of DEI bureaucrats and accepts millions of dollars in foreign funding from countries including China and Saudi Arabia, an investigation by OpenTheBooks found. revealed.

UT’s 2023 pay stub lists 93 people working in the school’s DEI office, the Department of Diversity and Community Engagement (DDCE), and 23 more in other DEI roles, according to OpenTheBooks . Combined, their salaries bring the school’s payroll to nearly $9.8 million, the equivalent of tuition for more than 1,800 students.

In light of a Texas law passed in 2023 banning DEI in higher education, UT changed the name of the office to the Office of Campus Community Engagement and expanded the approximately 60 employees who held DEI roles the following year. was fired. According to to an American politician in Austin.

The university’s highest-paid DEI employee earned $439,320 in 2023, while 28 other employees earned more than $100,000, according to OpenTheBooks. More than $381,000 will be spent on DEI initiatives in 2023, including diversity training for staff, the Equal Justice Center, which provides free legal services to undocumented immigrants, the Austin Justice Coalition; which one “We serve populations historically and systemically impacted by gentrification, racial segregation, over-policing, lack of educational and employment opportunities, and other systemic forms of racism in Austin. Transgender Equity Consulting agrees.

Since 2020, UT has committed billions of taxpayer dollars to research topics in DEI, including “shishteronormativity, meaning that everyone is cisgender and heterosexual,” according to a report from OpenTheBooks. He said he received a grant from the Department of Health and Human Services to study “social beliefs that The two schools have also received $380.5 million in foreign funding since 2013, including $25.3 million from China and $19.7 million from Saudi Arabia.

OSU outpaced UT in DEI salaries, paying a total of $13.3 million to 201 employees, according to a December report from OpenTheBooks. However, UT outperformed OSU in raising foreign funds: OSU received only $15.8 million from China and $7.7 million from Saudi Arabia, while UT received $25.3 million from China and $19.7 million from Saudi Arabia. Collected dollars. (Related: Fighting “racism/cisgenderism”: Meet the DEI staff The University of Michigan tried to disappear from the internet)

One of the federal grants awarded to OSU was to “provide 16- to 18-year-old girls and non-binary people with an immersive practice in geosciences combined with artistic expression and technical rock climbing elements. The funds were used to fund programs that provide a unique experience. Rocky Mountains, Colorado,” says the OpenTheBooks report. Another program, awarded $717,000 by the Department of Agriculture, will address “cultural resistance in America and Europe.” [that] Prevents acceptance of insect protein as a food source. ”

These DEI programs have been discontinued by some universities, often in response to state laws like Texas. Reports such as a report analyzing the University of Michigan’s inclusion program found that the university’s DEI office failed to increase student diversity and inadvertently escalated race relations on campus. As a result, many companies and schools have begun to withdraw from this practice.

UT and OSU did not immediately respond to requests for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.

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