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Northern Arizona University is learning a tough lesson in gender and race pay equity. A federal judge ruled that the school owes $1.4 million in back pay to 40 white male professors who sued for discrimination, after the school gave raises to minorities and women in the early 1990s but not to white men like themselves.
The university said that it raised some faculty salaries following a federal mandate to eliminate gender and race disparities. The professors argued that the raises of up to $3,000 "went beyond attaining a balance." The school said it tried to address the professors' concerns in the mid-1990s by providing $693,000 in ...