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English Professor at UMass-Dartmouth Wins Discrimination Case

Posted on June 17, 2011 by | 1 comment

Boston Globe: UMass gets $364,000 penalty in bias case

The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth has been fined $10,000 and ordered to pay one of its English professors $154,000 in lost wages and $200,000 in damages for emotional distress as part of a decision issued by the state’s antidiscrimination agency.

According to the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, its June 1 decision in favor of LuLu Sun, associate professor of English, also includes the “unprecedented step’’ of ordering the university to promote Sun to full professor. Sun’s complaint to MCAD alleged discrimination based on her gender, race, and Chinese ancestry.

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Female professors lose appeals on tenure at DePaul

Posted on November 2, 2009 by | Comments Off on Female professors lose appeals on tenure at DePaul

Chicago Tribune: Female professors lose appeals on tenure at DePaul
The women say the system flawed

While dust-ups over professors denied tenure are normally part of the ivory tower’s spring-term rhythms, this year the sit-ins and picketing at DePaul University have continued into the fall.

Students and faculty have marched in support of Melissa Bradshaw, a professor of women’s and gender studies who didn’t get tenure — higher education’s equivalent of a lifetime job guarantee.

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Professor Loses Discrimination Case Against Montana State U.

Posted on April 8, 2009 by | Comments Off on Professor Loses Discrimination Case Against Montana State U.

Bozeman Daily Chronicle: MSU prevails in gender discrimination lawsuit

A jury of eight women and four men ruled against a female Montana State University professor in Gallatin County District Court Friday after a ten-day trial in which the university’s promotion and pay policies were challenged based on allegations that the engineering professor was paid less than her male counterparts.

The jury was asked to determine whether tenured engineering professor Aleksandra Vinogradov was discriminated against because she is a woman and the discrimination was retaliation for complaining about her pay. Vinogradov was the first woman to be granted a tenured professorship in the university’s engineering department and was the only female professor there for several years.

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