The retirement of another accused “pretendian” at UC Riverside has re-focused attention on controversial UC Berkeley scholar Elizabeth Hoover.
the allegations against her, to stay in her teaching job for another year. She also will be able to retire with an emerita title, benefits and a pension, and she won’t face a formal investigation by UC Riverside. From the university’s perspective, the agreement brings the case to a “timely conclusion,” said spokesperson John D.
The controversy over Hoover erupted last November when Cesspooch and two other Native American PhD students, Sierra Edd and Breylan Martin,calling for her resignation. The statement was signed by more than 390 people, including other Native American scholars and activists, as well as current and former students from UC Berkeley and Brown, Hoover’s post-gradua5e alma mater.
Hoover did not respond to emails or phone messages asking for her response to Smith’s retirement or renewed calls for her to resign. In May, she said she didn’t plan to resign, and UC Berkeley previously said that it doesn’t plan to remove Hoover from her position, while spokesperson Janet Gilmore said the campus supported her efforts to address “the extent to which this matter has caused harm and upset among members of our community.
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