Campus Comedy

University of Michigan Botanical Garden employs DEI manager, hosts “confronting racism training

It’s all the usual bullshit which you can read at the link if you’re so inclined, but this is the hilarious part:

These DEI efforts also include several changes in how personnel are recruited, hired, and retained such as attempting to recruit from more diverse communities, deprioritizing graduate degrees when hiring staff, and offering higher wages.

So they’re lowering their educational requirements, weeding out people with graduate degrees, and raising the pay of the new, uneducated workers, who will presumably be recruited from urban schools, meaning there’s an 87% chance that they’re illiterate and innumerate. Just a guess here, but I imagine that those postgraduate degrees were in the sciences, except, of course for this woman

As for the relatively new DEI manager, Lopez Espinosa’s online bio page states she likes “tending plants” and lists the “cola del burro (Sedum morganianum)” as her favorite. She holds a master’s in education from the University of Michigan with concentrations on diversity and social justice.