I have spent months, literal months, thinking about what to say and when to say it. After six years, my litigation against UT Austin settled three weeks before trial, on 10 April 2022. Per the terms of the settlement, I can only say that the terms were mutually beneficial to…

Up to this point, I haven’t spent a lot of time discussing what the process of filing a lawsuit against one’s university actually entails. Most of us have probably heard things like “oh, you can’t possibly sue University of X because they have endless resources and will drag things out;”…

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…