Sunday, June 19, 2011

UMass gets $364,000 penalty in bias case

Boston.com
June 17, 2011State House News Service

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....

Full Story: http://articles.boston.com/2011-06-17/news/29670638_1_promotion-associate-professor-administrators

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