University System of Georgia Chancellor Sonny Perdue answered questions from Lt. Gov. Burt Jones in a 200-page letter admitting that millions of dollars of taxpayer money is spent on building a “diversity, equity and inclusion” bureaucracy within the USG’s 26 educational institutions. This now causes Jones and state lawmakers to further question DEI policies, programs and expenditures that cause racial division.
The chancellor told Jones that the 26 universities are now “reviewing” recruitment practices to make sure no applicants or new hires are asked or required to sign DEI statements involving race or racial classifications.
One concern, for example, involves Valdosta State University– a circumstance recently uncovered by InsiderAdvantage guest columnist Gary Wisenbaker. “Valdosta State University’s Department of Education and the Valdosta City School system,” he says, “announced a partnership that they received a $300,000 grant from Branch Alliance for Educator Diversity to “transform the standards of teacher preparation.’”
“Branch Alliance of Educator Diversity is headed by Dr. Patricia Alvarez McHatton,” he continues. “She also serves on the Board of Directors of the Alliance for Educator Diversity which takes the position that ‘it is clear to nearly anyone living in the United States today that we never did become a post-racial society. Racial tensions are more heated and visible now than at any point in recent memory.’”
Wisenbaker notes that Valdosta State University, with a 47%-38% white to black student body composition, has no recent history of conflict– yet race is a target of its Office of Student Diversity & Inclusion. Its director, he says, recently explained the department’s manifesto and premise as: “”What can really be said to adequately speak to the atrocities of social injustice, police brutality, racism and division we currently face.”
Jones and other state lawmakers are…
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