There are exceptions to this pattern of university’s hiring large numbers of adjuncts and non-tenure faculty, however. Ohio State University, where I obtained my doctorate, is one. Only 35% of its main campus professors are part-time.

But OSU also manifests one of the most injurious, and related, trends in modern higher education: The “diversicrat” plague. In other words, the proliferation of “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion”(or ‘DEI’) wranglers.

For the 2021-22 academic year, OSU spent over $13 million on these 132 officials and staffers. Ditto for the University of Michigan, University of Maryland, University of Virginia, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) and the University of Illinois, according to Joe Schoffstall, where “top diversity employees earn salaries ranging from $329,000 to $430,000—vastly eclipsing the average pay for the schools’ full-time tenured professors.”

Ten adjuncts could be hired for just one of these officials’ salaries. These five universities studied by Schoffstall “have between 71 and 163 individuals devoted to diversity efforts.” And what do DEI officials and staffers do? Not much, besides “create a political orthodoxy and enforce that political orthodoxy,” which usually consists of trashing America as intrinsically racist, seeking to undermine democracy and capitalism, and painting Western civilization as “white supremacist.”