Several Court Cases Will Not Persist - Higher Education: Ohio State University had a legitimate, non-discriminatory reason to deny tenure to an African-American assistant history professor whose teaching failed to meet university standards, an appellate court has ruled.
As a result, the Ohio Court of Appeals refused to reinstate Dr. Stephen Hall’s Title VII suit against OSU.
Hall earned his doctorate at OSU, taught briefly at Central State University and initially returned to OSU as a visiting faculty member. In 2002, he was appointed to a tenure-track position.
A 2008 promotion and tenure committee review cited Hall’s “excellent and important body of scholarly research and good service to the department and profession.”
