It seems from the stand point of NCU policy/requirements and expectations that the hiring of Ms. Richardson was an exercise in poor judgment by the HR department or whom ever from the start. That is not to imply Ms. Richardson is necessarily inferior as a human being, but rather to acknowledge her situation and NCU policy are as oil and water. 
"an apostate organization" or not, NCU has always leaned on being more fundamentalist then keeping with the historical mainline apostolic church organizations.