Diversity Office Staffer Allegedly Demoted for Being ‘White’ Sues University

A Wisconsin university official is suing her school after allegedly being demoted from a diversity-related position for being white.

This from westernjournal.com.

According to the New York Post:

In a federal lawsuit filed earlier this month, Rochelle Hoffman alleged that the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire sidelined her because of her race.

According to Wisconsin Public Radio:

Universities of Wisconsin Board of Regents, UW-Eau Claire Chancellor Jim Schmidt and Assistant Chancellor for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Teresa O’Halloran were included as defendants in the case.

According to the WPR report:

Criticism from some faculty over the “optics” of the situation created a hostile work environment, the suit alleged.

Hoffman was allegedly made to resign her position as interim director of the school’s Multicultural Student Services office last year.

The plaintiff said she was:

[S]ubjected to constant workplace hostility and racial harassment during her time holding the job, according to her case.

She argued in the federal complaint:

Despite [her] exceptional qualifications, however, students, faculty and staff opposed her appointment to Interim Director of MSS solely because she was white.

It was exclusively Hoffman’s identity as white that was the issue; criticism was about her race and color, not her qualifications.

According to the complaint, one student asked former Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion and Student Affairs Olga Diaz:

You hired a white woman as the Interim Director?

According to the suit:

Another student used leftist identity-based rhetoric to question Hoffman’s qualifications.

According to the Post, the student asked Hoffman:

Do you personally feel white staff can do as effective a job as a person of color, within a space for people of color?

The plaintiff alleged that she was removed from a classroom teaching role after filing a complaint related to the situation.

Hoffman summarized her diversity ordeal in an email to Wisconsin State Sen. Patrick Testin earlier this year.

She wrote:

This experience dragged out over 10 months and irrevocably damaged my career.

Hoffman still works for the university.

According to WPR:

She’s since taken a position as the school’s senior academic advising coordinator.

In a statement to Fox News Digital, the university board of regents said:

We do not comment on pending litigation.

Final thought: God speed Rochelle Hoffman.