Ohio State University Spent $13 Million on DEI Staff in One Year, Funded ‘Radical Left-Wing’ Teachings with Taxpayer Dollars: Report
The Ohio State University allocated over $13 million in one year to salaries for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) staff and hosted a number of “radical left-wing” courses, according to a report by Open The Books.
The report revealed that in 2023, the university spent $13.3 million on salaries for 201 DEI employees. The highest-paid officials earned nearly $300,000 annually, while 29 others received salaries exceeding $100,000. Many of these employees were affiliated with offices such as “Diversity & Inclusion” and “Institutional Equity,” while others were professors in departments like “Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.”
Open The Books also highlighted several university courses that promoted a radical, left-wing agenda. One course was centered on the topic of the “lesbian experience in the United States” and was intended to “disrupt the gendered and heterosexual assumptions embedded in how we understand the environment, nature, and bodies.”
Another course, titled, “Queer Ecologies: Gender, Sexuality, & the Environment,” examined topics such as “animal studies, queer and feminist social movements for environmental justice, trans*natures, and sexual politics” to “articulate a commitment to new thinking about the challenges of planetary and climate change.”
The report further noted that some programs have been funded by taxpayer dollars. Since 2020, Ohio State has received over $3 billion in federal grants. These funds have supported programs such as a rock-climbing initiative for teenage girls and individuals who identify as nonbinary. The university also received funding from the Department of Agriculture to solve “cultural resistance in the USA and Europe [that] impedes the acceptance of insect proteins as food sources.”
The university also accepted over $200 million in funding from foreign donations, including $15.8 million from China and $7.7 million from Saudi Arabia, per the report.
