SUNY Goes PC-Wild

It may be time to rename SUNY the State University of Political Correctness. The nation’s largest public university system has just adopted a sweeping new policy in the name of making its campuses the most diverse and inclusive in America.

Mind you, SUNY’s made impressive gains in minority enrollment over the past five years — largely through active outreach to recruit more such students and faculty. At rural SUNYPotsdam near the Canadian border, for example, minority enrollment is up from 18 percent to 42 percent since 2010.

But the results aren’t enough for SUNY to keep up with its peers across the country. The University of California has a vast diversity bureaucracy; SUNY wants one, too.

And so the 64 campuses of the State University of New York will each get a chief diversity officer plus faculty specialists to impose “cultural competency training” on all staff — and track performance records in multiple categories.

Mind you, when the diversity officer finds your performance unacceptable, the only solution is to hire more diversity bureaucrats. Yes, the budget is limited — but who needs better professsors or more science labs?

There’s more: To make students feel more “welcome,” SUNY has signed on to the full PC agenda — and its mindnumbing jargon.

Students will now get to selfidentify from a list of seven possible genders: man, woman, trans man, trans woman, genderqueer/ genderfluid, questioning, unsure — or some other label of their own creation.

Same with sexual orientation: They can identify as straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual, pansexual, queer, questioning, unsure — or, again, create something new.

Don’t ask why a college needs its students to formally identify any orientation: You’d be guilty of microaggression.

Anyway, after tracking “attainment and outcome,” the diversity network will rate each campus with an annual report card on its political . . . er, diversity correctness.

The whole project is a huge waste of time and money, at odds with the real mission of taxpayersubsidized SUNY: providing a reasonably priced college education.

PC extremism has already made a joke of countless US campuses. It’s obscene that SUNY is jumping on the bandwagon.