Lubbock Online
Posted: May 25, 2011 - 4:00pm Updated: May 25, 2011 - 11:03pm
A jury decided Texas Tech should pay a former professor more than $500,000 for discriminating against him because he is deaf
BY LOGAN G. CARVER AVALANCHE-JOURNAL
A Lubbock County jury on Wednesday decided Texas Tech should pay a former professor more than $500,000 for discriminating against him because he is deaf.
Michael L. Collier, Ph.D., a deaf, tenure-track assistant professor hired to teach American Sign Language and other courses relating to deaf culture, was abruptly dismissed in October 2006.
The jury found Collier's disability was directly related to his termination.
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