{"id":8425,"date":"2011-06-17T13:39:41","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T21:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=8425"},"modified":"2011-06-17T13:39:41","modified_gmt":"2011-06-17T21:39:41","slug":"english-professor-at-umass-dartmouth-wins-discrimination-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2011\/06\/english-professor-at-umass-dartmouth-wins-discrimination-case\/","title":{"rendered":"English Professor at UMass-Dartmouth Wins Discrimination Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Globe: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/massachusetts\/articles\/2011\/06\/17\/umass_dartmouth_ordered_to_pay_364000_in_discrimination_case\/\">UMass gets $364,000 penalty in bias case<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\nThe 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\u2019s antidiscrimination agency.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, its June 1 decision in favor of LuLu Sun, associate professor of English, also includes the \u201cunprecedented step\u2019\u2019 of ordering the university to promote Sun to full professor. Sun\u2019s complaint to MCAD alleged discrimination based on her gender, race, and Chinese ancestry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2011\/06\/english-professor-at-umass-dartmouth-wins-discrimination-case\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2257,2258,2264],"tags":[3334,1288947,1288948,3328,7434,273692],"class_list":["post-8425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment-rights","category-equity","category-legal-issues","tag-discrimination","tag-employment-rights","tag-equity","tag-gender-discrimination","tag-race-discrimination","tag-umass"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8426,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8425\/revisions\/8426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}