Oregon State University students from the Women Gender and Sexuality Studies program are still waiting on a response from OSU to address the allegations brought against Associate Professor Qwo-Li Driskill. In the fall of 2023, allegations against Driskill surfaced that questioned their Indigenous identity. OSU has not yet addressed the allegations. Students say they have.
On her first day of class, Yola Gomez, a first-year Ph.D. student at Oregon State University, was inundated with claims about mistreatment towards minority students by a professor in OSU’s Women Gender and Sexuality Studies program. The alleged mistreatment was by Associate Professor Qwo-Li Driskill, who recently made headlines of false claims of Indigenous identity. .
According to multiple Oregon State University graduate students, an OSU professor s behavior was the subject of concern long before they were accused of falsely claiming Native American ancestry.