In March 2005, Benedict did not renew teachingcontracts for Aggelopoulou and two other instructors — assistant artprofessor Michael Hale and Katherine Mille, an associate Englishprofessor — because of their race, the complaint says. (Not only that, they won. — Ed)
COLUMBIA— A historically black college in South Carolina has been sued afterthree white faculty members say they were passed over for jobs or letgo for because of their race, federal officials announced today.
Alleging that Benedict College “engaged in unlawful practices,” theU.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission also said today that theColumbia school had also agreed to pay $55,000 to each of the threeformer instructors.
Under a settlement reached between Benedict and the EEOC, the schoolalso agreed to remind staff about its employment policy prohibitingdiscrimination, provide administrators, faculty and staff with trainingand make periodic reports to the EEOC.
In its complaint, the EEOC says art instructor Argiri Aggelopoulouin December 2004 applied for but did not receive a position asassistant art history professor, adding she was instead passed over infavor of a black instructor.
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