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State government has watched, if not encouraged post-secondary education expenses to spiral out of control. And the answer now is, quite predictably, more government. At URI alone, there are positions entitled "Assistant Director of Community, Equity and Diversity/Bystander Intervention Training and Education"; "Creative Marketing Specialist" for the $2.1M Gender and Sexuality Center; and of course a "Building Manager" for the same Gender and Sexuality Center. With benefits, that's about $300,000 and does not even begin to expose the tip of the iceberg. There are presently 19 separate committees or commissions at URI dealing with the topic of "diversity" and "inclusion", at which full-time faculty and various grievance groups undoubtedly plan the next sit-in. The solution, of course, is more diversity officers, committees, and commissions. If the state was truly interested in making college more "affordable", it would look critically at all the non-classroom, social justice idiocy that has caused college to become so expensive in the first place. Apparently, better to throw more taxpayer money at an issue that was created and nurtured by government in the first place, all as the Beacon waves pom-poms in this superficially researched piece.