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SURPRISE! College Diversity Bureaucrats Don’t Actually Improve Diversity

Ashe Schow

Colleges and universities love to claim they care about diversity and hire highly paid chief diversity officers (CDO) to increase the presence of minorities on college faculties. The CDO at the University of North Carolina, for example, earns more than the state’s governor.

The College Fix reports on new research from the National Bureau of Economic Research which found no “significant statistical evidence” that these highly paid CDOs accelerate “preexisting growth” in hiring “underrepresented” groups.

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