Marnie Muñoz and Myesha Johnson

University of Michigan administrators have fired a top diversity, equity and inclusion officer for actions that represented “extremely poor” judgment, a UM representative confirmed.

Rachel Dawson, the former director of the university’s Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives, was reported to have made antisemitic comments in a conversation at a conference in March, according to the New York Times. Dawson allegedly said the university was “controlled by wealthy Jews,” according to documents obtained by the newspaper through a Freedom of Information Act request.