Former Assistant Dean at Rutgers Law School Sues Over Firing After He Questioned How DEI Funds Were Being Used

A former assistant dean at Rutgers Law School said in a new lawsuit that he was fired after he questioned how funds raised for ​diversity efforts were spent and school officials accused him of “watering down” a ‌minority student program in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2023 decision banning the consideration of race in admissions.

Clifford Dawkins Jr., who is black, said in a lawsuit filed on Saturday ​in federal court in New Jersey that he was discriminated against by ​Rutgers Law Dean Johanna Bond on the basis of race and age ⁠when she fired him in January from his post as the Assistant Dean & ​Director of the Minority Student Program at the school’s Newark campus.

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