- Just__FF ( @Just__FF@lemmy.world ) English15•1 year ago
Can’t wait for the new WI supreme court to hear the pending case on gerrymandering. Hopefully it will allow us to get rid of the super majority in the next election.
- famskiis ( @famskiis@vlemmy.net ) English2•1 year ago
What an offensively misleading headline. ~$15.6m a year for employee salaries that only deal with diversity issues is INSANE. Especially with taxpayer money. Sorry y’all but these cuts are a good thing.
- Tolookah ( @Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de ) English2•1 year ago
The UW system has approximately 39,000 staff, assuming that 0.5% is diversity (1 out of every 200), and that’s about the right $
Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Wisconsin_System
- zhunk ( @zhunk@beehaw.org ) English1•1 year ago
Does that include funding for their Institute for Diversity Science and the research they do?
- GrandmasterFrank ( @sergio@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English1•1 year ago
Is that insane? I don’t know much about university funding, how does that compare to other academic departments and athletics?