But McElroy said soon after her hiring, which including a public signing ceremony, that she learned of emerging internal pushback from unidentified individuals over her past work to improve diversity and inclusion in newsrooms.
PUBLISHED 3:12 PM CDT Aug. 03, 2023AUSTIN, Texas — Texas A&M University reached a $1 million settlement Thursday with a Black journalism professor The nation's largest public school agreed to pay Kathleen McElroy and apologized to her while admitting “mistakes were made during the hiring process.”
But McElroy told the Texas Tribune last month that soon after her hiring, she learned of emerging internal pushback from then-unidentified individuals over her past work to improve diversity and inclusion in newsrooms. The website's article “generated numerous calls and emails to the President’s Office at TAMU” from current and former students “raising questions about why a DEI proponent would be hired to serve as director of the new journalism program,” a summary of the school investigation said.
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