Legal Opinion
Chang v. University of Rhode Island
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Decided July 18, 1977No. 76-43-M.PPublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJoslin, J.
This is a sex discrimination case. The complainant, a woman of Chinese ancestry, received a masters degree in mathematics from the respondent University of Rhode Island (the university), a nonprofit educational corporation, in 1968. In the spring of that year, she was hired by the university as a full-time instructor on an annual contract basis to teach undergraduate mathematics courses in the College of Business Administration (the college). Her contract was renewed in 1969 and again in 1970.
In the fall of 1970, the newly-appointed dean of the college undertook to upgrade the faculty in an…
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