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$400,000 awarded for sex bias at Wisconsin.(Newswatch)(University of Wisconsin, Platteville)
A former assistant chancellor at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville will receive a $400,000 jury award for sex discrimination by the school. The jury rejected her claim of racial discrimination.
Dr. Sharon Walker sued the board of regents and the Platteville chancellor after her contract was not renewed in 1999.
Former Platteville chancellor Robert Culbertson hired her in 1994 and extended her contract to 1999. In 1996 David Markee became chancellor; he gave her a positive job evaluation and raise of $4,150 in November 1997. But a month later he told her he wouldn't renew her contract.
Markee blamed his dissatisfaction on Walker's refusal to take a large personal role in off-campus recruiting of black students, ...
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