In 2012, I reported about UC Berkeley’s office of diversity having a budget of $17 million because it seemed stunningly excessive, but they are pikers compared to the University of Southern California.

Now USC at least has the excuse of being a private university so taxpayers were not dinged by this monumental stupidity. Perhaps when word gets out about $100 million for diversity, parents will nix the kiddies attending such a crazy place, as has happened to the University of Missouri. Mizzou suffered a 20 percent decline in enrollment (and a $32 million deficit) after last year’s racially inciteful protests which included free speech violations that were widely publicized.

Some of the extra millions are to set up scholarships for Mexicans and Syrians. Apparently the increasing devolution of liberal virtue requires screwing one’s own fellow citizens, including poor Americans of all races who need financial help. The great god Diversity must be worshipped with sacrifices — someone else’s, of course.

Another example is Prescott College in Arizona which recently added a $30 fee to the $28,000 tuition in order to establish scholarships for illegal alien students. Again, small spuds compared to USC but the principle is the same.

American colleges are becoming more diverse anyway because foreign students often pay full tuition which helps keep the aging edifice financially alive. On Tuesday, the New York Times reported on the shameful use of recruiters to snare unqualified foreigners with fat checkbooks: Recruiting Students Overseas to Fill Seats, Not to Meet Standards. The upshot is that American students are being ill-served even by state schools funded by taxpayers.

Meanwhile, the innumerate USC students want lower tuition along with the millions for diversity. Grade school math anyone?