March 1, 2002

Delaware State Settles Bias Lawsuit by White Professor It Fired

By PIPER FOGG

Delaware State University settled a racial-discrimination lawsuit in February that had been filed by a white former professor at the historically black university. The agreement follows the university's settlement of a racial-discrimination case last year with a former employee in the financial-aid office. A third discrimination lawsuit against Delaware State is pending.

Margaret McKay, a tenured political-science professor who was fired in 2000, argued that the university had

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