Former Employee of Collin College Sues on Claims of Racial Discrimination, A Fourth Occurance for the School
Another former employee has sued Collin College, alleging multiple college leaders discriminated against her based on her race and gender, created a hostile work environment, and retaliated against her.
The lawsuit, filed by Swee Lian “Linda” Wee on July 13, is the fourth brought against the community college over the past year.
Wee, who worked as the school’s director of continuing education starting in 2016 after serving as a professor for four years, applied in 2019 for a newly created position called executive dean of continuing education.
In the lawsuit, Wee alleges that Provost Bill King, her direct supervisor, rejected her application, telling her the college sought to hire someone “who would be able to present themselves to C-suite executives” and who had a doctorate.
The college then hired Karen Musa, a white woman from the United Kingdom who doesn’t have a doctorate, according to the lawsuit, which said Musa told several staff members “that she was asked to ‘assume’ the Executive Dean position.”
