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Suit 1
In May of 2005, Denise Johnson, associate professor of surgery and the only African-American female surgeon at Stanford, filed suit against Stanford University and Stanford Hospital, alleging racial and gender discrimination. Although a Stanford spokeperson wrote in 2005, ´We believe Dr. Johnson's case is without merit,´ the suit was settled out of court by May of 2006.
Campus-wide, the number of black faculty dropped by 2.2 percent last year, and the number of female faculty grew by only 0.4 percent, according to a report presented to the Faculty Senate on April 28.
The Stanford medical school is no stranger to complaints of discrimination. In Walking Out on the Boys, Frances Conley described the culture that led her to resign her position as of tenured professor of neurosurgery in 1991. In 2000, Colleen Crangle, a former School of Medicine research scientist, won a court case against Stanford for damages. This was appealed and settled out of court in 2001.
Sources: Stanford Daily 5/20/05, 5/25/06, 6/14/06
Suit 2
A former accounting employee filed suit against Stanford in the fall of 2005, citing retaliation and discrimination. In 2003, Sheryl Kanzaki raised questions about reimbursement for athletes' recruitment. Expenses included alcohol and a trip to a strip club, neither of which at that time violated National Collegiate Athletic Association regulations. (These regulations changed after allegations of sexual harassment connected with recruitment at the University of Colorado, see Spring-Fall 2004 Newsletter.) In her complaint, Kanzaki mentioned ´a culture of intolerance and retaliation´ against employees who used their rights under family and medical leave law. (Is this a more overt form of the chill sensed by faculty members studied by the Mapping Project See the discussion of parental leave in academe in the Fall 2005 Newsletter.) The suit came to a settlement in July of 2006.
Sources: Stanford Daily 1/12/06, 1/17/06; San Francisco Chronicle 1/11/06; cbs5.com 1/11/06; San Jose Mercury 7/22/06
DOL Investigates
After an unexplained hiatus, the department of labor reopened its investigation of Stanford University´s hiring and tenure practices in 2005, The previous investigation began in 1998 and stopped a year and a half later. In its wake, Condoleeza Rice left her post as provost and became an advisor to then presidential canidate George W. Bush (see Spring 2000 Newsletter).
Source: Stanford Daily 10/12/05
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