$12.7-Million Judgment in Tenure Case Leaves Many Academic Experts Stunned

Sex-bias suit against Trinity raised issues that are contentious on many campuses

Tenure denials become routine in academic life to anyone who has been around it long enough. But when a losing professor becomes a winner -- a multimillion-dollar-winner -- higher education takes notice.

It paid attention last month, when a Connecticut jury awarded Leslie Craine $12.7-million after finding that Trinity College had denied the former

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