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The University of Minnesota reached a $200,000 settlement this year with an African-American instructor who alleged she was denied a tenured position because the education college had just promoted another woman of color.

A tenured professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Yolanda Majors joined the U’s College of Education and Human Development in 2011.

Majors said Dean Jean Quam wanted to hire her as a tenured professor but decided to wait a year on the tenure decision because another woman of color, Nina Asher, had just been made chair of curriculum and instruction.

“Dean Quam stated that she feared push back from the faculty for her decision to hire Dr. Asher and that because of this she was reluctant to present (Majors) to the faculty due to the fact that Dr. Majors was also a woman of color,” Majors told the court.

ajors accepted a temporary appointment as a non-tenured visiting professor. But a year later, she was told she’d need to publish more to be considered for a tenured position.

Majors said in an interview Thursday that she published a book and wrote three articles. But Quam told her in June 2013 that she no longer was being considered for a tenured position.

“I’m still waiting for them to tell me what it looks like to be as good as a white man,” Majors said.

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Surprised the paper would do that.

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Originally posted by QuirtEvans:
That's a little bit like saying....

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Originally posted by jon-nyc:

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Originally posted by QuirtEvans:
That's a little bit like saying....

No, it's not at all like saying that. I made the simple factual statement that hiring to achieve an ethnic balance requires discrimination.

Your post is more of a normative statement expressing the opinion that sometimes discrimination based on ethnicity is justified.


Really the two posts are totally orthogonal.

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As Chief Justice Roberts once said, the way to end racial discrimination is to stop discriminating by race.

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Originally posted by Nina:
It is illegal to hire based on race. Full stop.

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Federal District Court Judge Allison D. Burroughs issued her decision Tuesday, saying that "Harvard's admission program passes constitutional muster" and that "ensuring diversity at Harvard relies, in part, on race conscious admissions."

The plaintiff, advocacy group Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA), has accused Harvard of discriminating against Asian-American applicants. It argued the school considers race too much, forcing Asian-Americans to meet a higher bar to get in.

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Harvard is among a large group of selective schools that consider race as one factor in admissions