White Texas A&M Branch Official Due Trial Over His Departure

Texas A&M University Texarkana should face a discrimination trial for allegedly forcing a White assistant vice president to resign after removing his duties to investigate student race bias complaints, a federal magistrate judge said.

A jury could disbelieve the university’s reasons for its treatment of the former student affairs employee and find race discrimination drove the school’s actions, US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas Magistrate Judge Boone Baxter said.

The evidence of pretext includes that the longtime employee hadn’t previously been disciplined during his decades with the school and that “all (or practically) all race-related complaints” by ...