...[Board of Regents chairman Javier] Gonzales has said regents are concerned about several issues, including the American Association of University Professors' decision last month to censure Highlands on the grounds the school improperly denied tenure to two faculty members.Regarding the last:
The board also has expressed concern about litigation against Highlands, including discrimination and breach-of-contract lawsuits filed by two Anglo former employees who lost their jobs during Aragon's tenure, Gonzales said.
The university paid $250,000 to settle one of the claims, while the other is pending in federal court...
A former assistant chemistry professor who was denied tenure at New Mexico Highlands University has sued the school, alleging the tenure denial was because he wasn't Hispanic.(Compare this quote from California Democratic Party Chairman Art Torres: "People say to me when I was on the senate floor when I was in the senate, why do you fight so hard for affirmative action programs. And I tell my white colleagues: because you're gonna need them.")
David Wiedenfeld, who now teaches at Marshall University in Huntington, W.Va., alleges unlawful termination, discrimination on the basis of race and national origin and "perceived" religious discrimination. He said Highlands officials thought he was Jewish, although he isn't...
...Wiedenfeld, who had taught at Highlands since the fall of 2001, was one of four white professors who was denied tenure in February 2005. Aragon recommended the denial, and the regents approved it.
Wiedenfeld was replaced by a chemist who is Hispanic...
...The lawsuit also said Aragon, during a management meeting, referred to Highlands' Faculty Senate as "17th century white property owners controlling the vote."
Posted to Immigration at September 2, 2006 12:03 PM
(Compare this quote from California Democratic Party Chairman Art Torres: "People say to me when I was on the senate floor when I was in the senate, why do you fight so hard for affirmative action programs. And I tell my white colleagues: because you're gonna need them.")
Of course, affirmative action laws do not protect Torres' "white colleagues" at all. The racial make-up of CA could be only 10% white and the AA laws would be tilted against that 10%.
Posted by: D Flinchum at September 3, 2006 04:04 AM
"Myrriah Gomez, one of the four students who had sued the regents..."
Gee, I wonder if the "student leaders" who sued to prevent Aragon's firing actually belonged to an organized group, like maybe...just guessing here...Mecha, La Raza?
Posted by: Pat at September 4, 2006 09:05 AM
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