Tino Villanueva v. Wellesley College

TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge.

This appeal presents an intersection of three areas of law: the summary judgment standard; the burden-shifting analysis in employment discrimination cases; and the special considerations relevant to employment discrimination in the milieu of academic tenure decisions. Our negotiation of this junction leads us to affirm the grant of summary judgment in favor of defendant-appellee Wellesley College.

BACKGROUND

Tino Villanueva, a poet and a specialist in Chicano 1 literature, joined the Wellesley faculty in 1974 as a part-time instructor in the Spanish Department. After…