Goswami v. Depaul University

MEMORANDUM OPINION

Jeffrey Cole, United States Magistrate Judge

INTRODUCTION

In 2010, Dr. Namita Goswami, applied for tenure in DePaul University’s Philosophy Department. Her application was rejected by a majority of the tenured faculty in the Department by a vote of eleven to seven, with one abstention. The majority’s rejection “rest[ed] largely on the quality of [Dr. Goswami’s] research and what this says about her ability to train doctoral students in philosophy. The view of the majority [was] that the research is weak, incoherent, and lacks a conceptual framework.” (Pl.Br., Ex b at 18).1

As…