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Gail M. Gottfried vs. Occidental College et al.
On November 13, 2001, Gail Gottfried filed suit in the Superior Court of Los Angeles,
claiming employment discrimination and naming Occidental College, Theodore Mitchell,
Dennis VanderWeele, Jaclyn Rodriguez, Nancy Dess, and Anne Schell each as defendants.
Gottfried, a member of the Cognitive Science Program and the Department of
Psychology at Occidental College, was denied tenure in April 2000 after allegedly
failing to properly fill "the fourth bucket," the elusive criterion that
the college considers "quite apart from the criteria for evaluation of faculty
service normally employed in the review process." She was told that her
excellent professional record was "outweighed by the negative atmosphere
[her] Psychology colleagues feel within the department." This "
atmosphere" arose following Professor Gottfried´s request that the
Dean investigate an alleged anti-Semitic comment by a department member‹colleagues
did not care for her personality, allegedly typical of a "New York Jewish
woman."
Further details of her case, including her performance reviews, the dean´s
dismissal letter, and the faculty petition on behalf of Gottfried to the president
of Occidental are available at
www.fourthbucket.org/cases/gottfried/gail.html.
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