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"Decolonizing" the Dance Department
One Wisconsin lawmaker says he’s continuing to find problems in the recent DEI audit of the University of Wisconsin.
Rep. Ron Tusler, R-Harrison, on Tuesday took to Twitter to expose “more absurdity.”
“UW-Madison used taxpayer resources on an effort to ‘Decolonize the Dance Department.’ Because apparently there were just too many colonizers waltzing around Madison’s campus that they felt that this should be a priority,” Tusler wrote.
The Decolonize the Dance is among the thousand-plus DEI activities the Legislative Audit Bureau tracked as part of its recent audit of diversity, equity, and inclusion in both the UW system and state government.
Some of the other campus DEI activities auditors found, including:
“Information provided by UW institutions listed a total of 1,263 diversity, equity, and inclusion activities for the period from January 2020 through April 2024,” the auditors wrote.
“Taxpayers shouldn’t be footing the bill for these Interpretive Guilt lessons,” Tusler added.
The audit reported that the University of Wisconsin system spent $40 million on DEI during the 2023-2024 school year, including $12.5 million on salaries for people with DEI jobs.
“While the UW begs the state for $855 million in new funding, they continue to tap dance around any accountability for their wasteful DEI spending,” Tusler wrote.
UW President Jay Rothman is certain to get questions about the DEI audit, its costs, and the $855 million budget request later this week.
Rothman is due before the Assembly Committee on Colleges and Universities Thursday afternoon.
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