Ok, the sentence to which I am referring won’t actually end up costing UT Austin $3 Million+ but that was the award returned by the jury in a gender based discrimination case on Friday. I happened to know something about the case because I was a member of our university’s…

One of the few positive things to come out of the pandemic, on some campuses, is a careful rethinking of various ADA policies. In March 2020, when the pandemic first announced itself in the US and everyone rushed to move their classes onto Zoom or some other distance learning platform…

People who know me well know that I am a huge stickler for professionalism. I’m not sure that I though much about the concept before I started by job at UT Austin in 2002. My graduate program at University of Pennsylvania did an excellent job of training its students. Not…

As I’ve discussed in previous posts, I have made use of ADA accommodations for the last decade or so. In the beginning, when my health was still relatively good, I did not need extensive accommodations. Indeed, many of the accommodations were not used and all of them were things that…

This post will resume the narrative of the episodes that eventually led to the filing of a lawsuit against UT Austin. As I noted back in early August, the rest of this narrative is very painful to recount. Indeed, after reading through many of the documents we obtained in discovery…

One of the things that fascinated me about the Netflix show starring Sandra Oh was its portrayal of the job of the department chair. It made the job look far more exciting than I imagine it is in reality. Academia is a weird workplace. Until the last few decades, it…

In the coming weeks, I will be getting into the meat of things, specifically, the episodes that finally forced me to file a lawsuit v UT Austin. As I have done throughout, I will be relying on documents in the public record to support my claims. Speculation will be marked…

I last wrote a blog post in early August. At the time, I needed to take care of my mental and physical health. It was (and continues to be) extremely difficult to read and write about events that have left me seriously traumatized. As well, I did not want to…

In the next several posts, I will be outlining the events that preceded and then led to the decision to think about filing a formal lawsuit. In Texas, an EEOC complaint is required before an individual can pursue a lawsuit. 99% of all EEOC claims result in the EEOC shrugging…