Shira Hedgepeth (pictured), the former director of academic technology at Winston-Salem State University (WSSU) in North Carolina, is claiming that she was terminated from her post last July because she is White.
After filing a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) just two days after she was released, the agency now agrees with her allegations, according to the New York Daily News.
Hedgepeth, who has been with the university since 2008 and was promoted to her last post in 2010, reportedly performed her duties to the satisfaction of higher-ups and never received any complaints about her job performance. Over time, however, Hedgepeth began to notice that when White university employees were terminated from their jobs, typically for no justified reason, she contends the vacancies were usually filled by people of color.
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Hedgepeth’s observations of White employees being replaced by non-Whites soon turned into noticeable patterns and when it was her turn, she alleges she could no longer stand idly by.
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The EEOC concurs with Hedgepeth’s allegations concluding that, “race, white, was a factor in the terms and conditions of employment and respondent’s (WSSU’s) decision to terminate her employment.”
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