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Central Washington University President Jim Wohlpart apologized last week after police were called when a Black professor was mistakenly identified as a homeless woman by another faculty member.

A campus police officer was dispatched around 9:30 a.m. Monday, April 1 to Samuelson Hall after Jose Riera, a lecturer in the College of Education and Professional Studies, advised there was an “older transient female wandering around the lobby,” according to the incident report.


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