Charmane Thurmond, an African-American who formerly served as the graduate diversity officer at the University of Connecticut (UConn), has been fined $20,000 by a state ethics board for allegedly improperly awarding a $54,000 fellowship to her husband. In response to the charges against her brought by UConn, Thurmond has filed a lawsuit claiming "racial discrimination" by the university.
According to a story published in the Hartford Courant, the Citizen's Ethics Advisory Board (CEAB), found th
Charmane Thurmond, an African-American who formerly served as the graduate diversity officer at the University of Connecticut (UConn), has been fined $20,000 by a state ethics board for allegedly improperly awarding a $54,000 fellowship to her husband. In response to the charges against her brought by UConn, Thurmond has filed a lawsuit claiming "racial discrimination" by the university.
According to a story published in the Hartford Courant, the Citizen's Ethics Advisory Board (CEAB), found th…