It looks like this “Diversity” spending was just a big gravy train.

Scott Greer reports at the Daily Caller.

TN Lawmakers Rip Apart University System For Spending Millions On ‘Diversity Programming’

Some Republican legislators in the Tennessee legislature are not happy with the state’s taxpayer-funded university system spending $5.5 million every year on diversity programming.

In a contentious Wednesday hearing of the Senate Higher Education Subcommittee, lawmakers grilled University of Tennessee officials on the figures.

“I’m not passing judgment on anybody’s lifestyle,” GOP Sen. Todd Gardenhire said in the hearing, according to The Tennessean. “But I have a responsibility to look at the numbers” to determine if UT is spending money wisely… To me it appears that you’re not.”

The UT system recently got into hot water with the state legislature over a directive published on a school website that instructed students to use gender-neutral pronouns, like xyr and ze, in order to promote a more “tolerant” campus environment.

Before the university took down the guidelines in early September, 32 state lawmakers sent a letter demanding UT remove it. The legislators also promised hearings on the matter.

UT-Knoxville chancellor Jimmy Cheek said that most of the millions spent on diversity goes toward recruiting minority students to meet the alleged demands of future employers.

“The business community is asking us to diversify our student population,” Cheek told the panel, according to The Tennessean. “That’s where most of these resources go.”