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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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The UMass Amherst chancellor, who is probably facing termination after a negative evaluation report, is demanding an attorney general’s investigation into leaks from a university committee.

Posted on June 13, 2011 by | Comments Off on The UMass Amherst chancellor, who is probably facing termination after a negative evaluation report, is demanding an attorney general’s investigation into leaks from a university committee.

Boston Globe: UMass official demands inquiry
Amherst leader assails leaking of negative report

The UMass Amherst chancellor, who is probably facing termination after a negative evaluation report, is demanding an attorney general’s investigation into leaks from a university committee.

In a highly unusual three-page letter to the University of Massachusetts president, Robert Holub uses strong language to denounce the evaluation committee’s failure to keep its work confidential, according to two people who have seen the letter. In the letter, he argues that he has become a victim of a poisonous political atmosphere that plagues the university system.

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