Michigan State University Spends Almost $900,000 on Five DEI Staffers

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Michigan State University Spends Almost $900,000 on Five DEI Staffers
Catherine Salgado  | 10:11 PM on July 11, 2026
   

Quinn Dombrowski from Berkeley, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
A single state university in Michigan is spending close to $1 million on just five employees in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) positions that federal standards no longer allow.
 

Campus Reform filed a public records request and uncovered the information about the salaries at Michigan State University’s (MSU) Office for Inclusive Excellence and Impact. Altogether, MSU is spending $879,194.81 on salaries for five employees at the office. Notably, the university has attempted to remove some DEI language and masked its DEI strategic planning in order not to lose federal funding after the Trump administration insisted on elimination of the poisonous woke ideology from taxpayer-funded academia.

There are many reasons that college is overpriced in America, with some of the biggest factors being government interference and bureaucratic financial incompetence. Another reason is that many universities spend a considerable amount of money on employees and programs that should never have existed in academia to start with.

There is absolutely zero need for DEI employees at any university, and indeed they do a great deal of harm. Yet Campus Reform reports on MSU:

https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/07/11/michigan-state-university-spends-almost-900000-on-five-dei-staffers-n4954930

[rangerrebew]

Hey, I live only about 60 miles from MSU and would entertain the thought of accepting a position when the next one opens.  For $180,000 a year, hell yes.  I don't know anything about it, but don't imagine the current members know much more than I about it.  And, granted, I'm a bit "seasoned," which means I won't be able to last long but can do as well as they for the time I have.