{"id":7904,"date":"2023-12-22T22:19:02","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T23:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=7904"},"modified":"2023-12-22T23:59:48","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T23:59:48","slug":"employee-allegedly-forced-out-because-of-her-race-at-uw-eau-claire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=7904","title":{"rendered":"Employee Allegedly Forced Out Because of Her Race at UW Eau Claire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2023\/12\/22\/employee-allegedly-forced-out-because-of-her-race-at-uw-eau-claire\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=employee-allegedly-forced-out-because-of-her-race-at-uw-eau-claire\">https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2023\/12\/22\/employee-allegedly-forced-out-because-of-her-race-at-uw-eau-claire\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=employee-allegedly-forced-out-because-of-her-race-at-uw-eau-claire<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/12\/22\/news\/university-of-wisconsin-eau-claire-sued-for-demoting-staff-member-from-diversity-position-for-being-white\/?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=nypost\">Nuts<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire staff member sued her employer over being ousted from a position in a campus diversity office allegedly for being \u201cWhite.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit alleges that when Rochelle Hoffman was promoted to UW-Eau Claire\u2019s interim director of the campus\u2019s Multicultural Student Services office, the school\u2019s former Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion and Student Affairs Olga Diaz was told by students that a White woman was not fit to preside over a position intended to serve students of color.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou hired a white woman as the Interim Director?\u201d one student was cited in a federal complaint against the university.<\/p>\n<p>Per the complaint, another student asked, \u201cDo you personally feel white staff can do as effective a job as a person of color, within a space for people of color?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hoffman said she felt compelled to resign last year after eight months of intense hostility and staff questioning her \u201clegitimacy\u201d after being promoted to interim director of the campus\u2019s Multicultural Student Services office, the complaint states.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"et_social_bottom_trigger\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2023\/12\/22\/employee-allegedly-forced-out-because-of-her-race-at-uw-eau-claire\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=employee-allegedly-forced-out-because-of-her-race-at-uw-eau-claire Nuts A University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire staff member sued&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boots-sabers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7905,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7904\/revisions\/7905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}