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One of the hardest things for employers is being accused of wrongdoing and, rather than reacting defensively, flipping it to their advantage. For an example of how to do so, let’s look to the University of Houston (UH) and how it handled a discrimination complaint from a disappointed professorship applicant.
Kate Kingsbury applied for a professorship at UH in its Department of Comparative Cultural Studies. As with other candidates, she was interviewed by a committee of faculty members. Enter Professor Elizabeth Farfán-Santos, one of the four committee members. While inquiring about Kingsbury’s study of the Mexican