In September 2005, the St. Louis District Office of the EEOC (with participation from the Kansas City Area Office) brought this suit against Newman University in the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas alleging discrimination on the basis of sex in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Specifically, the complaint alleged that the defendant refused to promote the charging party, a female employee, to a position she was well qualified for because of her sex. In addition, the defendant allegedly retaliated against the charging party after she complained of the discrimination by changing her job title and duties, resulting in her constructive discharge. The charging party intervened in the suit in October 2005. After some scheduling orders and discovery, the parties settled through a consent decree in March 2006.

The three-year decree, containing non-discrimination and non-retaliation clauses, required the defendant to: revise its anti-discrimination policy and complaint procedures, inform employees in writing of the changes to its policies, distribute a notice of rights, provide annual EEO training for all its administrative and supervisory employees, employ a Vice President of Human Resources to be in charge of compliance with its policies and the decree, provide the charging party with a neutral employment reference, post notices of rights, report to the EEOC at specified intervals, and pay $182,500. The docket sheet doesn't show any further enforcement took place; the case was presumably closed in 2009.

Justin Kanter - 07/27/2007
- 06/13/2017


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