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The head of the University of Michigan’s wide-ranging diversity programs and enforcement activities is collecting an annual salary of $407,653, following a $11,100 raise in 2018. The university employs more than 48,000 people, of which 51 collect a base salary of $400,000 or above.
Robert Sellers, chief diversity officer and vice provost for equity and inclusion, has seen his income skyrocket since being appointed to the position in October 2016. According to U-M records, Sellers was paid $190,000 as a professor of psychology in 2012-13.
U-M President Mark Schlissel was paid $852,346 in 2018.
Sellers’ wife is also part of the diversity bureaucracy at the university. Tabbye Chavous Sellers is program director for the National Center for Institutional Diversity on the Ann Arbor campus. She made $181,404 in 2018. Robert Sellers and Tabbye Chavous Sellers came to U-M separately in different years long before they were married, according to the university. They report to different departments.
U-M describes Sellers’ academic background as this: “Dr. Sellers’ primary research activities have focused on the role of race in the psychological lives of African Americans. He and his students have developed a conceptual and empirical model of African American racial identity. The model has been used by a number of researchers in the field to understand the heterogeneity in the significance and meaning that African Americans place on race in defining themselves.”
U-M Diversity Chief Gets $407k Annually, Oversees 12 Employees
The head of the University of Michigan’s wide-ranging diversity programs and enforcement activities is collecting an annual salary of $407,653, following a $11,100 raise in 2018. The university employs more than 48,000 people, of which 51 collect a base salary of $400,000 or above.
Robert Sellers, chief diversity officer and vice provost for equity and inclusion, has seen his income skyrocket since being appointed to the position in October 2016. According to U-M records, Sellers was paid $190,000 as a professor of psychology in 2012-13.
U-M President Mark Schlissel was paid $852,346 in 2018.
Sellers’ wife is also part of the diversity bureaucracy at the university. Tabbye Chavous Sellers is program director for the National Center for Institutional Diversity on the Ann Arbor campus. She made $181,404 in 2018. Robert Sellers and Tabbye Chavous Sellers came to U-M separately in different years long before they were married, according to the university. They report to different departments.
U-M describes Sellers’ academic background as this: “Dr. Sellers’ primary research activities have focused on the role of race in the psychological lives of African Americans. He and his students have developed a conceptual and empirical model of African American racial identity. The model has been used by a number of researchers in the field to understand the heterogeneity in the significance and meaning that African Americans place on race in defining themselves.”
U-M Diversity Chief Gets $407k Annually, Oversees 12 Employees
