THEY'RE NOT WASTING ANY OF MY MONEY.

I generally consign fundraising requests from any institution of higher education directly to the recycle bin.  They're not going to get a mention in my will, either, particularly with results like these. UW-Madison sees no improvement in campus climate despite millions invested in DEI.

I'm not surprised, their alumni communications are similarly foolish.

The idea behind so-called inclusive education is that it's supposed to produce those intellectually curious youngsters.  The lie is that those intellectually curious youngsters exist, and somehow a more conventional education doesn't hurt them.  Think about this, dear reader.  Each month I receive glossy alumni magazines from a university you might have heard of (not always in a good way) and you might be excused for thinking they're sending out Benetton catalogs based on the covers, and the feature stories.  The stories, though, describe faculty members or graduates working on Really Useful projects, and the language and presentation is impeccable.

That post was ultimately about the failure of so-called inclusive education in the high schools and before. The messaging isn't much better at university.

There has been no improvement in the UW-Madison campus climate over the last six years despite the public university pouring millions of dollars into programs and staff positions to support diversity, equity and inclusion.

“Students of color, students with disabilities, nonbinary students, transgender students, and other LGBTQ+ students responded less positively than their counterparts” when rating whether they feel welcome, safe and respected, according to the results of a recently released campus climate survey.

“The gap in reported perceptions between these students and other students did not change between 2016 and 2021,” the survey found.

Outgoing Chancellor Rebecca Blank said the survey results were disappointing and she hopes her replacement can do a better job on diversity.

“It’s clear that there do remain gaps between more marginalized groups and their degree of satisfaction and their sense of belonging and comfort on this campus,” Blank said during her final press conference on campus May 11.

“I think we’ve done a number of things that have helped move the university forward, but as others have noted, we are a predominantly white institution in a predominantly white state and this is work that is going to be ongoing for a long time.”

Whether that's the propensity of the favored protected status students to gripe about stuff that could be done, the tendency of the diversity deanlets to emphasize what work remains to be done (the day a major campus reports success in diversity efforts, will somebody downsize Student Affairs?) or the fact that the outgoing chancellor still has to establish her woke bona fides at Northwestern, and you can never go wrong deplorable shaming white folks.

Her successor is unlikely to be better.

When asked by The College Fix via a virtual press conference Tuesday how she plans to improve diversity beyond what Blank had achieved, incoming Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin said she will spend time on campus before deciding how her approach might differ from Blank’s.

“That’s definitely [an issue] where I will need to get to campus and learn a lot more,” Mnookin said. She noted during the interview that scholarship programs to make education more accessible and affordable for all students were at the top of her list.

Look out, more Distressed Material showing up in the incoming classes.

The College Fix documents a number of other diversity, inclusion, and equity excesses so I don't have to.  "So much for me writing any more checks to any operating units of the University of Wisconsin."