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By Stephen Largen • slargen@monroe.gannett.com • April 20, 2010
The University of Louisiana at Monroe will pay nearly half a million dollars to former business school Dean Van McGraw under the terms of a consent decree agreement related to an age discrimination and retaliation lawsuit brought against ULM and the University of Louisiana System Board of Supervisors by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.The terms of the consent decree were released Tuesday afternoon after U.S. District Judge Robbie James signed the agreement Monday.The terms state that ULM will pay McGraw $450,000 and the board will implement significant policy changes, annually train its supervisory and managerial employees concerning discrimination and submit 10 semiannual reports to the EEOC over the five-year duration of the decree.One aspect of the consent decree, that the board would reverse policy and no longer factor in retiree status when considering applicants for jobs at the system’s eight member schools, was already instituted in 2008.McGraw had been fired in 1996 under the previous policy.
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