Campus Reform
James Pearce, who is black, has been at North Carolina Central University as a department chair since 2008.
Pearce says the school pressured him to use “racially discriminatory hiring practices” on non-black employees.
Pearce has filed complaints with the EEOC
No workplace is safe from discriminating employees, even historically black college and universities (HBCU).
James Pearce, the Director of Graduate Studies in the Language and Literature Department, has been in charge of hiring candidates at North Carolina Central University as a department chair since 2008. However, Pearce has complained the school pressured him to use “racially discriminatory hiring practices” on non-blacks employees.
Pearce has filed two Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) complaints because of the alleged discrimination: one in 2010 and the second in 2014 according to ABC11.
Pearce filed the second complaint with the EEOC because he believes that he lost out on becoming the chair of the Department of Language and Literature in retaliation for his complaints. read more
