Federal Judge Dismisses Texas A&M International Discrimination Suit: A federal judge in Houston has tossed out a civil rights lawsuit by an untenured faculty member who claimed his university was getting rid of Asian faculty members to replace them with Hispanics.
U.S. District Judge Kenneth Hoyt ruled in early December that Dr. Fuming Wu offered insufficient evidence to support his allegation that Texas A&M University International University’s branch in Laredo (TAMIU) had “an employment strategy that aims to change the faculty portfolio to match that of the student population.”
Hoyt also found that the university had sufficient non-discriminatory justifications not to renew Wu’s contract based on lack of collegiality, poor teaching performance and insubordination.
Wu, who represents himself, filed a notice of appeal in mid-December.
