The Independence Institute criticized the spending and budgeting practices regarding diversity efforts at the University of Colorado at Boulder, according to a report to be released Monday.
The report says the university’s budget data is “highly unreliable” and calls on the school and other officials to independently investigate its diversity spending.
CU president Hank Brown said any requested funding information should be available fairly quickly.
“I think we’re still struggling to figure out the right formula, so we’re trying a lot of different things,” he said of diversity programs.
The authors also called CU- Boulder’s diversity mission “unclear” and urged officials to scrap the programs and “focus on outreach to disadvantaged students of all races.”
“For minority students coming from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds, a support system will still exist. For those not coming from disadvantaged backgrounds, however, such students will not be targeted as being in need of special assistance,” the report reads.
CU-Boulder officials should end “ethnic-specific counseling” and any suggestion that diversity programs are “race-specific, race- selective or race-restrictive.”
Lead author Jessica Peck Corry said the report did not take a stand on whether race should be considered at all.
“We’re trying to stay away from the ideological debate of should race matter in admission,” Corry said.
