Pennsylvania State University’s anti-racism trainings allegedly created a “racially hostile environment” for a White English professor who resigned after he opposed grading students on the basis of race, according to a new lawsuit.
Plaintiff Zack De Piero claims he was pressured by his colleagues and university officials to conform to their political viewpoints almost immediately after he started working as an assistant English professor at Penn State’s Abington campus in August 2018, according to the complaint filed in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Wednesday.
The month after he started, his supervisor Liliana Naydan, chair of ...
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