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NEW: Is the juice worth the squeeze? Stanford Law School sure seems to think so: the DEI dean who berated judge Duncan makes as much as $201,200–more than twice the salary of most Stanford postdocs, and considerably more than many tenure-track positions.🧵freebeacon.com/campus/is-the-…

Tirien Steinbach, the law school’s associate dean of DEI, makes between 100k and 200k a year, according to Stanford’s internal salary structure. For context, an assistant professor at Stanford’s school of sustainability has a max base salary of just $145,000.

Even Steinbach’s minimum salary, $95,800, would put her in the top fifth of U.S. earners: In 2021, the median American family only made $70,784.

The dean has become an overnight avatar for what the Wall Street Journal called the "tyranny of the DEI bureaucracy."

In a shocking video earlier this month, Steinbach—formerly an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union—joined the mob of students who disrupted Duncan’s talk, stealing the podium from the judge and reading her own prepared speech.

"Do you have something so incredibly important to say," she asked, that it is worth the "division of these people?"

Or, as she put it in a now-viral metaphor: "Is the juice worth the squeeze?"

Steinbach is clearly worth a lot to Stanford. In August 2020, the law school solicited applications for an associate dean for diversity, equity, and inclusion, the position Steinbach would go on to fill. A job posting classified the role as "Grade K"—a reference to the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Ideal candidates for Steinbach’s role, the job posting said, should have "excellent judgment and discretion." careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/associate…

The dean’s compensation is hardly atypical. From universities to corporations to government agencies, senior DEI officers routinely make six-figure salaries, with some raking in over $600,000 a year. The average salary for diversity professionals is $132,363, putting them in the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Stanford employs an army of these bureaucrats. The university, which accepts fewer than 4 percent of applicants, has nearly 12 DEI administrators for every 1,000 students—a ratio that far exceeds every other American university, including Harvard and Yale.

As Stanford has built out this bureaucracy, it’s students who’ve been left holding the bill: The university in February announced a 7 percent tuition hike for undergraduates, who will be charged $82,406 a year beginning next year. bestcolleges.com/news/stanford-…

Though Duncan and others have called on Stanford to fire Steinbach, as of this writing she is still hanging on. So are the protesters, who by the law school’s own admission violated its free speech policies.

Though Jenny Martinez, the law school’s dean, has said Stanford is "reviewing what transpired," she has not indicated that any students involved will face disciplinary action.

Duncan, who’d been invited by the law school’s Federalist Society chapter, was unable to complete his talk due to the protest Steinbach helped stoke. freebeacon.com/campus/dogshit…

Hecklers disrupted him nearly every other word and—in the hallway before the event—told the sitting federal judge that "we hope your daughters get raped," according to Duncan and Stanford Federalist Society president Tim Rosenberg.

Stanford eventually apologized to Duncan, writing that the protest some staff members "intervened in inappropriate ways that are not aligned with the university’s commitment to free speech."

Steinbach, though, was unrepentant.

In a conversation with students after the event, the well-paid diversocrat claimed that Duncan was just a provocateur trying to spark a reaction, and that he hadn’t prepared a speech–even though the judge was holding several pages of prepared remarks. freebeacon.com/campus/student…

She also said the hecklers hadn’t violated Stanford’s free speech policies, which bar protests that "prevent the effective carrying out" of a "public event."

Steinbach and Stanford have not responded to multiple requests for comment.

One group that organized the protest, the Stanford National Lawyers Guild, is now threatening further disruptions. In a statement circulated 48 hours after the event, the guild’s board described the shout down as "Stanford Law School at its best," hinting that it would use such… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

That militancy isn’t a new development. In August 2021, the guild released a guide for "radical" first year students who were struggling to square their "anti-racist, anti-capitalist" commitments with their attendance at Stanford Law. freebeacon.com/campus/stanfor…

The guide suggested skipping readings as a form of "self-care"—advice some students seem to have taken. Following the Duncan debacle, one 2L, Mary Cate Hickman, claimed we had no legal right to post a picture of her classmate because "California is a two-party consent state."

Hickman apparently missed the class on California’s two-party consent law, which does not apply to photographs. freebeacon.com/campus/at-stan…