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But after some banter, the NADOHE declined to respond. They provided no evidence — anecdotal or empirical — illustrating that CDOs are worth their hefty paychecks.

As Campus Reform's Anthony Gockowski has reported, CDOs can earn upwards of $200,000 or $300,000 annually at public universities. At private schools, the salary could be much higher, but they aren’t mandated to publish any of their salary data.

Since the NADOHE punted, PJ Media spoke with two experts on the issue: AEI Scholar Mark Perry, and Heather Mac Donald, who just published the Peggy Noonan-approved book “The Diversity Delusion.”

Mac Donald told PJ Media that CDOs “contribute nothing positive to a university.”

“The metastasizing diversity bureaucracy is founded on a delusion: that faculty search committees discriminate against competitively qualified candidates ‘of color,” among other false beliefs outlined in her new book.

“In fact, almost every faculty search is one desperate effort to find qualified females and underrepresented minorities who have not already been scooped up by a better-endowed university,” Mac Donald told PJ Media on Thursday.