Columbia University Professor Can Advance Anti-Muslim Bias Suit

A Muslim associate professor at Columbia University’s Teachers College in New York can proceed with her claims that the school discriminated against her based on her religion by not offering a tenured position, a federal district court said.

Amra Sabic-El-Rayess is a Muslim immigrant from Bosnia who has been a non-tenure-track faculty member at Teachers College for over a decade, the court said. She sued April 18, contending that Columbia rejected her efforts to obtain a tenured or tenured-track position because of her faith and age.

Sabic-El-Rayess adequately alleged that Columbia violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of ...