“Because of a decision made by President Aragon to engage in an illegal program to discriminate against non-Hispanic faculty and staff, Dr. Wiedenfeld was denied tenure and was forced to leave New Mexico to find work elsewhere,” reads his lawsuit.
Wiedenfeeld filed a grievance with a faculty committee, which agreed that procedures had been violated and urged the administration to review the tenure decision. Aragon rejected the committee’s findings.
The lawsuit also says Aragon, during a management meeting, referred to Highlands’ Faculty Senate as “17th century White property owners controlling the vote.”
— Associated Press
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