Auburn University Beats Black Program Director’s Race Bias Suit

Auburn University secured a pretrial win ending a racial discrimination suit after a federal judge ruled a former program director failed to show the school removed her from the role because she’s Black.

The worker didn’t provide evidence allowing an inference of racial discrimination, identify similarly situated employees who received better treatment, or show that the university’s reasons for failing to renew her contract were pretextual, the US District Court for the Middle District of Alabama said Thursday.

Plaintiff Jennifer Wells-Marshall served as executive director of Auburn’s Family Child Care Partnerships program for parts of 2019 and 2020. She alleges ...