Campus Warned of Bias in Denial of Tenure
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
UC Santa Barbara was admonished by federal antidiscrimination watchdogs for allegedly denying tenure to a professor after she took time off to have two children.
There was reasonable cause to believe the university discriminated against professor Laurie Freeman, 41, in 2003 when she was denied a lifetime appointment as a tenured professor, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in San Francisco ruled Sept. 6.
Freeman was granted tenure by the university this summer.
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