Tag: Discrimination: Page 44

Faculty & Staff

2nd Trial Begins in Conservative’s Bias Claim Against University of Iowa

After years of arguing that liberal Iowa law professors illegally derailed her career, a conservative lawyer will get a second chance to prove her claim to a jury.

June 22, 2015

Faculty & Staff

Judge Denies Freed Illinois Man Certificate of Innocence

A Cook County judge on Thursday denied a certificate of innocence to a man whose murder conviction was overturned, saying the man’s own actions led to a finding of his guilt—including a confession that helped free a death row inmate in a case key to ending capital punishment in Illinois.

June 18, 2015

Leadership & Policy

Prosecutor Says Detention of Virginia Student was Justified

A prosecutor said Wednesday that he found no evidence of excessive force or racism by officers involved in the arrest of a University of Virginia student who was bloodied and pinned to the ground in an incident that drew widespread attention.

June 17, 2015

Home

Judge Rejects Faculty Position Bias Suit

A federal judge has rejected a race and age discrimination suit by an applicant of Pakistani ancestry who wasn’t offered an interview for a faculty position at Waukesha County Technical College in Pewaukee, Wisconsin.

June 17, 2015

Home

Diverse Conversations: Why Diversity on Campus Matters in Real World

It’s easy to think of college campuses as islands ― academic havens with little interaction with the greater world beyond.

June 9, 2015

Disabilties

Judge Sides with Texas Southern in Discrimination Suit

An African-American applicant who was repeatedly rejected by the Thurgood Marshall School of Law at Texas Southern University has lost his race, gender and disability discrimination case.

May 28, 2015

Faculty & Staff

N.C. Central University Facing 3 Discrimination Suits

NCCU denied the validity of claims in three lawsuits filed against it that accuse Chancellor Debra Saunders-White of discriminating against non-African-American employees.

May 27, 2015

Opinion

Race Relations at a Rocky Impasse

A recent CBS News poll of 1,027 adults taken last week indicated that a majority of people believe that race relations are at their worst in more than two decades.

May 13, 2015

Students

U.Va. Dean Sues Rolling Stone Over Debunked Gang Rape Story

A University of Virginia associate dean sued Rolling Stone magazine on Tuesday for more than $7.5 million, saying a debunked account of an alleged gang rape on campus cast her as the “chief villain.”

May 12, 2015

Community Colleges

Lawsuit: Educational Cadavers Mishandled at Malcolm X College

For more than a decade, a college in Chicago stored four unidentified human cadavers in cardboard boxes in a locked, unrefrigerated closet, then fired a doctor who raised questions about it, according to a recently filed lawsuit.

April 30, 2015

Latinx

Students Challenge Columbia University’s Alleged Limiting Use of Spanish

According to a petition circulating among the Columbia University community, dining service workers are forbidden from speaking in Spanish and were forced to eat their meals in a closet during their breaks for multiple months.

April 27, 2015

Opinion

The Problem with Bruce Jenner as Trans Poster Boy

Does a rich celebrity really tell the story of trans diversity?

April 26, 2015