Mr. Bekaert, a senior faculty member who has taught at Columbia for nearly 20 years, had ties to the company that owned the data Ms. Ravina needed. The suit describes Mr. Bekaert as a rapacious supervisor who used his authority to delay Ms. Ravina’s research and undermine her attempts to gain tenure. After she took her complaints to Columbia leadership, Ms. Ravina’s tenure process was sped up and a paid leave that the university had granted her for the 2015-16 academic year was revoked. The university’s lawyers attempted to portray Ms. Ravina as a subpar employee who did not get tenure because of her poor performance. Although jurors believed Mr. Bekaert had retaliated, he was not held liable for discrimination.

Source: New York Times July 26, 2018 22:50 UTC