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...Wright, who requested a one-year teaching extension on her contract after being denied tenure, may also sue the University, her lawyer said this week...
...Wright's complaint is not that she was denied tenure, but that the Afro-Am executive committee turned down her request for the extension, which she says the committee routinely grants...
...requested the extra year to complete her research on Black American musical folklore. After being denied the extension. Wright filed a formal grievance with the University, charging that the executive committee discriminated against her on the basis of race...
Under the grievance procedure guidelines. Wright may choose one member to the three-member hoc committee that will hear her complaint. Dean Rosvsky and Nathan Huggins, chairman of the Afro-Am department. select the other two committee members. But the committee rejected as "inappropriate" Wright's choice of Eileen Southern, professor of Afro-American Studies, and asked Wright to select someone else...
...committee's rejection of Southern, along with it's refusal to grant her an extension, prompted Wright to file a complaint with the EEOC and consider suing the University, Winston D. Kendall, Wright's lawyer, said this week. He added that Wright is keeping her original choice of Southern...