Whitey Ford
07-25-2019, 05:44 PM
White Professor Sues Historically Black College for Race Discrimination
A white professor filed a lawsuit against his employer, a historically black college, accusing the university of engaging in unlawful race and age discrimination.
Marshall Burns, 73, a 40-year tenured professor of physics at Tuskegee University in Alabama, filed a federal discrimination lawsuit July 19 alleging that he’s been denied deserved salary increases due to because of his age and race, according to the Montgomery Advertiser.
In the complaint, Burns claims that full professors employed by Tuskegee earned between $78,000 and $90,000, but that his current salary of $60,500, is equal to that earned by associate professors employed by the university. He further claims that he has requested and been denied a raise on at least 12 occasions.
However, Burns said he could no longer endure the mistreatment when, several years ago, the school denied his request for a sabbatical so he could write a physics textbook. Burns had previously taken only one sabbatical during his tenure at Tuskegee, which he also used to write a textbook.
Burns’s lawyer Julian McPhillips on Tuesday told The Advertiser that suing the school was a last resort, only taken after talks with university officials broke down over this past year.
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/white-professor-sues-historically-black-college-for-race-discrimination/
A white professor filed a lawsuit against his employer, a historically black college, accusing the university of engaging in unlawful race and age discrimination.
Marshall Burns, 73, a 40-year tenured professor of physics at Tuskegee University in Alabama, filed a federal discrimination lawsuit July 19 alleging that he’s been denied deserved salary increases due to because of his age and race, according to the Montgomery Advertiser.
In the complaint, Burns claims that full professors employed by Tuskegee earned between $78,000 and $90,000, but that his current salary of $60,500, is equal to that earned by associate professors employed by the university. He further claims that he has requested and been denied a raise on at least 12 occasions.
However, Burns said he could no longer endure the mistreatment when, several years ago, the school denied his request for a sabbatical so he could write a physics textbook. Burns had previously taken only one sabbatical during his tenure at Tuskegee, which he also used to write a textbook.
Burns’s lawyer Julian McPhillips on Tuesday told The Advertiser that suing the school was a last resort, only taken after talks with university officials broke down over this past year.
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/white-professor-sues-historically-black-college-for-race-discrimination/