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University Employees Say They Were Fired for Using ‘He/Him,’ ‘She/Her’ in Emails

Shua Wilmot and Raegan Zelaya, two former dorm directors at a small Christian university in western New York, acknowledge their names are unconventional, which explains why they attached gender identities to their work email signatures. Wilmot uses “he/him.” Zelaya goes …

North Carolina Appeals Court Rules UNC Violated Tenure Rules in Professor Firing

A state appeals court has ruled that the University of North Carolina didn’t follow proper procedures when it suspended and ultimately fired a tenured physics professor convicted of smuggling drugs in Argentina. The Court of Appeals ruled this week that …

Judge Rules for Employees in Post-Katrina New Orleans School Firings

Thousands of New Orleans school employees were wrongfully fired after Hurricane Katrina scattered the populations and shut down the city and its schools, a Louisiana judge ruled. Judge Ethel Simms Julien awarded more than $1 million to seven people who …