Chapel Hill, N.C. – The University faces yet another lawsuit citing racial and gender discrimination, this time in the Kenan-Flagler Business School. New reports show former graduate student Rose Brown filed the federal lawsuit last month against the University, three of her former professors, and the UNC Board of Governors.
In the lawsuit, Brown claims she faced retaliation and racism as the only Black woman in the Business School’s P.h.D program in Organizational Behavior.
In June 2021, one month before her dismissal, Brown reported her professors and advisors to the Equal Opportunity Compliance Office.
The lawsuit states faculty failed to include her headshot in the program’s candidate portfolio, did not accommodate her requests for extensions on assignments to attend court hearings for her sexual assault case against an acquaintance and that she faced retaliation.
Brown seeks compensation for “mental anguish, severe emotional distress, financial loss, and pain and suffering.”
Picture Credit: https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/21/us/unc-discrimination-lawsuit-reaj/index.html