White, Male Professors in Arizona Win Judgment.

This article reports that a judge has decided that 40 white, male professors who brought a discrimination suit against Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff 11 years ago are entitled to $1.4-million in back pay and raises. The professors alleged that the university had discriminated against them in a pay-equity plan by giving raises of up to $3,000 each to certain minority and female professors, but giving no raises to them. By overcompensating women and members of minority groups, Judge Robert C. Broomfield ruled, the university had violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits employers from discriminating on the basis of race or sex.