White University Student Affairs Worker Advances Race Bias Claim

A White former employee at the Rochester Institute of Technology can move forward a lawsuit claiming the university racially discriminated against her when it hired a Black man over her for a director position, a federal judge ruled. Jessica Ecock-Rotondo, provided enough evidence to create a genuine dispute of fact on whether RIT's reasons for selecting Jarron Mortimer, an external hire, to lead the Center of Student Conduct and Conflict Resolution were pretext for racial discrimination, Chief Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford wrote Friday for the US District Court for the Western District of New York. However, Ecock-Rotondo failed to advance ...