Texas A&M University reached a $1 million settlement with Black journalism professor Kathleen McElroy after botched attempts to hire her unraveled.
The nation’s largest public school agreed to pay Kathleen McElroy $1 million, and apologized to her while admitting “mistakes were made during the hiring process.”
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.
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