UW-Eau Claire Diversity Task Force Makes Recommendations Following Racist Incidents

In response to multiple racist incidents on the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire campus in 2019, the university has issued a list of recommendations aimed at improving equity, diversity and inclusion.

In November, five UW-Eau Claire football team members were suspended for sharing racist messages mocking a Black Male Empowerment student organization on Snapchat. The messages included an image of Klu Klux Klan members in white hoods and gowns standing before a burning cross with a suggestion that the sender was going to hold a white male empowerment group meeting...