[robertbrianbush]

Originally Posted by beach43ofus

In all my years of living in FLA, I've never seen anyone get discriminated against..ever.

Thus, I see no need to teach about it in our public universities.

I have heard a Black former Dean of a College who traveled all around the World, say America treats people of color better than nearly every other country in the World...& they have more opportunity here than anywhere else, so why not teach that?

https://www.theblaze.com/shows/the-g...and-oppression

So you don't think the history of slavery and Jim Crow should be taught in the universities? In a Deep South state? Things like Rosewood shouldn't be taught in Florida universities?

[Dave_n_Tenn]

Originally Posted by robertbrianbush

Stop trying to tell the other side what they think or why and listen to them. No, I don't want to "get" white people. That's ridiculous. I am one. But that doesn't mean I am blind to the need for mechanisms to thwart racism.

Do we need more mechanisms? to make people 'feel' something? What privileges do white people have that others don't? Asians seem to be doing pretty good, why is that?

[Dave_n_Tenn]

Originally Posted by robertbrianbush

So you don't think the history of slavery and Jim Crow should be taught in the universities? In a Deep South state? Things like Rosewood shouldn't be taught in Florida universities?

All aspects of history are valid.. the good and the bad. The puzzle remains incomplete without all the parts, and no single part more important than the other. However the intent is to 'complete' the puzzle not blame the pieces where they don't fit.

[Dave_n_Tenn]

Originally Posted by VA Yankee

From what I read in the paper the salaries being paid to political hacks appointed by DeSantis is well above the $300k paid for a Program Director at a university.

Total Pay
$85K to $136K/yr

$108K (Median Total Pay)
The estimated total pay range for a Director at University of Florida is $85K–$136K per year, which includes base salary and additional pay. The average Director base salary at University of Florida is $108K per year. The average additional pay is $0 per year, which could include cash bonus, stock, commission, profit sharing or tips.

https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Uni..._D_KO22,30.htm

[VA Yankee]

Originally Posted by Dave_n_Tenn

Total Pay
$85K to $136K/yr

$108K (Median Total Pay)
The estimated total pay range for a Director at University of Florida is $85K–$136K per year, which includes base salary and additional pay. The average Director base salary at University of Florida is $108K per year. The average additional pay is $0 per year, which could include cash bonus, stock, commission, profit sharing or tips.

https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Uni..._D_KO22,30.htm

Your figures are pretty much on the mark as this university document reflects https://data-apps.ir.aa.ufl.edu/publ...20Salaries.pdf. But the poster I responded to stated that they were making $300k (see post #127)

[Dave_n_Tenn]

Then you have... How much does UF athletic director make?
$1.725 million
Stricklin is now under contract through October 2027. His total compensation jumped to $1.725 million from $1.151 million annually. His base salary increased to $1 million from $545,900. He also received a $120,000 annual bump for media obligations.

Sports help more minorities than DEI.... by far, especially for black athletes. However if you allow men to compete in women sports, as DEI suggest is socially prudent, you hurt so many who fought so hard, for so long, to get equal funding, for their sport.

DEI is divisive.

[aslowdodge]

Originally Posted by gentlearts

And what needs are those? The need to be special? The need to receive preferential treatment? What?

There have always been departments for international students. Nobody has a problem with that.

If they need to have special needs addressed, doesn’t that mean they are not being treated equally?

[Travelassie]

Originally Posted by VA Yankee

Your figures are pretty much on the mark as this university document reflects https://data-apps.ir.aa.ufl.edu/publ...20Salaries.pdf. But the poster I responded to stated that they were making $300k (see post #127)

As a long time and now retired state of Fl employee I can tell you NO FL state employee is paid anything close to exhorbitant amounts. The poster to whom you referred must have confused FL state appointees ( and the governor's salary, in fact), with their peers in the northeastern, midwestern and western states.

[silverct9a]

NOPE! College sports generate BILLIONS of dollars

It’s the other way around, black athletes basically finance every almost every major Power 5 football school and especially SEC universities due to the revenue the sports they participates in generates in the form of television deals, ticket sales, bowl game appearances, merchandise etc.

These universities football programs are what butters the bread of these universities and subsidizes it loss leader sports, especially ANY women’s sports. The revenue it generates is also the source of many academic scholarships.

These young black athletes bodies provides MILLIONS of dollars to these Universities and they in the past received nothing from it except a scholarship for a degree that may or may not lead to successful career if they don’t make it to the pros(most don’t make it)…thankfully with the NCAA NIL that has started to change.

These young black athletes would be far better served heading straight to the professional ranks, but we all know whose bottom line that would affect so they make that not possible to in Football & Basketball - both sports where black athletes happen to be overrepresented.

Does one need to attend a high profile/Power 5 Conference school to go pro in Baseball? Golf? Tennis? The answer is no.

https://www.bestcolleges.com/news/an...letes-be-paid/

Originally Posted by Dave_n_Tenn

Sports help more minorities than DEI.... by far, especially for black athletes.

[Corrie22]

Originally Posted by Dave_n_Tenn

Sports help more minorities than DEI.... by far, especially for black athletes. However if you allow men to compete in women sports, as DEI suggest is socially prudent, you hurt so many who fought so hard, for so long, to get equal funding, for their sport.

DEI is divisive.

blacks dominate football and basketball...an imbalance....should they be made to recruit more non-black players?

should DEI be applied to everything?.....that's what DEI is about.....equity

equity means recognizing that we do not all start from the same place and must acknowledge and make adjustments to imbalances.