March 29, 2024
The University of Akron defeated a lawsuit alleging it targeted two finance professors for layoffs during the pandemic because one is Black and one is Asian, with an Ohio federal judge ruling Friday that the academics relied on faulty statistical analysis to back up their claims.
November 04, 2022
Two former finance professors have launched a complaint in Ohio federal court accusing the University of Akron of discriminating against them for their races and national origins when it laid them off as part of its workforce reduction during the pandemic.