LCC instructor sues college, claims it didn’t protect her from being harassed by student | Local | Eugene, Oregon

LCC instructor sues college, claims it didn’t protect her from being harassed by student | Local | Eugene, Oregon: A tenured instructor at Lane Community College is suing the school, alleging administrators failed to seriously address her concerns about a male student who she says stalked her and made unsettling comments to other female teachers. Nadia Raza filed suit Thursday in U.S. District Court in Eugene.

"A tenured instructor at Lane Community College is suing the school, alleging that administrators failed to seriously address her concerns about a male student who she says stalked her and made unsettling comments to other female teachers.

Nadia Raza filed suit Thursday in U.S. District Court in Eugene. She accuses LCC officials of negligence, job and sex discrimination, and retaliation and of denying her constitutional right to equal protection under the law after she informed administrators of escalating problems with a student who enrolled in her Race and Ethnicity class in January 2014.

“Lane’s response made a terrifying situation much worse,” Raza said Thursday in a news release issued by her attorney, Jennifer Middleton of Eugene.

The lawsuit does not list a monetary amount being sought. But Raza — who now teaches only online classes after going on what the suit calls “forced leave” — claims to have suffered emotional distress as well as unspecified economic damages in the form of lost wages and benefits.

LCC spokeswoman Joan Aschim declined to comment on the allegations, saying school policy prevents her from discussing pending litigation.

Raza, the suit says, went to college administrators for help in early 2014 after the male student turned in an assignment in which he wrote that he was affiliated with neo-­Nazis, and then began asking her via email to meet with him off campus. Raza felt disturbed and threatened, and suspected that the student took “particular interest in her as a Pakistani-­(American) Muslim woman,” the suit asserts.

Raza reported the student’s behavior to her department chair, and LCC public safety officials responded by citing the student for harassment in violation of student-­conduct rules, according to the lawsuit. 

The suit does not use the student’s name, and identifies him only by the initials ‘S.S.’

Raza said she became frustrated after LCC officials denied her request to participate in the student’s conduct violation case and refused to inform her of the investigation’s outcome.

The student, meanwhile, continued sending Raza emails and in April 2014 emailed another LCC instructor, Caroline Lund­quist, to say that he had discovered that “a large corporation” was keeping him under surveillance, the suit asserts.

After S.S. made similarly bizarre comments in Lundquist’s class — including one mentioning a belief that other students “were reading his thoughts and trying to keep him from murdering anyone” — public safety officers informed LCC officials that the student was a convicted felon who had several restraining orders filed against him, according to the lawsuit.

LCC told the student to stay off campus but he sent more emails to Raza, one of which she felt contained a veiled threat, the suit asserts.

Raza alleges that LCC officials complicated her efforts to file a restraining order petition in court against S.S. She also asserts that the school failed to do anything to promote her safety while on campus, and never tried to connect the student with mental health services. 

According to the lawsuit, S.S. sent emails to three other female LCC instructors in April 2014.He asked one teacher to help him contact Raza and sent “disturbing and delusional” messages to the other two, the suit states.

The student, according to the lawsuit, was arrested and charged with trespassing in May 2014 after he had shown up twice at a Eugene apartment building while looking for Raza.

Raza at some point after spring 2014 ceased classroom instruction and began teaching online courses instead. In a meeting last year to discuss Raza’s possible return to campus, LCC declined several of the teacher’s safety-related requests, the suit states.

Raza continues to teach online courses for LCC. She alleges in the lawsuit that college officials have denied her a full-time schedule and reduced her class enrollment in order to cut her pay.

According to the suit, S.S. has continued to show up in Raza’s neighborhood, and Raza moved out of what at the time was her home because she feared that the student knew where she lived.

In addition to unspecified monetary compensation, Raza is seeking a court order that requires LCC to provide her a safe work environment, and directs the school to create a comprehensive sexual harassment policy and update procedures related to student-conduct investigations.”

This is what LCC does the BEST!! Ignoring all Arab/Muslim Americans, females, minorities!!

LCC wouldn’t hire me, so they can protect the bank robber with a brief case Bob Ackerman! My first office I run for was LCC Board in 2003.

I got 48.9% But because of the criminal official Ackerman! It was rigged election!!

Never mind, LCC chose to hire a Hateful, Begoted, Islamophobic, Barry Sommer to teach anit-Islamic class back in 2010!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tt0aEiUhNM

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/aclj-demands-anti-islam-activist-be-allowed-teach-class-islam

My life in Liberal Klans Oregon!!

Arab/Muslim Americans are treated less than animals!

We are being prosecuted in a daily basis! High tech lynching, institutionally racism! Especially for Arab women!!

Oregon former late A.G. Dave Frohnmayer had my SS# blocked & prevented me from getting employed, made me homeless and jobless!

He was the one who started & initiated the fraud of taking over our homes!!

His bank robber Rep. Bob Ackerman hired Scarlet Lee/Barnhart Associated, forged my family’s signature, sold our fully paid Condo to the thief Investor/Realtor Bob Ogle & his mom Karen Ogle, without my signature!!

Bob Ackerman had never responded to the Summon from the Court, and the sheriff never served him or arrested him either!!                                                                        

ThIs is what kind of criminal government we have in Oregon!!

I ran five times for public offices! Voter Fraud & Sedition by Lane County government to protect & cover up for the two criminals Frohnmayer & Ackerman!!

Oregon government is complicit with their crimes!!

https://www.facebook.com/groups/justice4nadiasindi

www.davefrohnmayer.com

Please sign petition.

https://www.change.org/petitions/a-g-eric-holder-sent-jeff-merkley-gov-john-kitzhaber-investigate-abuse-of-power-and-criminal-forgery-by-former-oregon-a-g-david-frohnmayer-and-lane-county-government#share

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  Jose Ortal 

  
  

  Having been intimately involved in these types of issues, during 1996-2006 period, it appears that the only responsible thing to do is--to the best of my ability--correct the record.

  @GuardingTheRegister--is correct about the article's modest amount of verifiable data;
  @Outsider77--depending on how "...professional investigators..." is defined, LCC may only have 2 options, i.e. on staff or outsourcing it to a third party. In the latter case, this entity would have to comply with the Fair Credit Reporting Act's strictures and
  @NadiaSindi--basic point, notwithstanding rhetorical flourishes, is accurate. During last year's accreditation dust-up, LCC divulged that it must comply with the OFCCP's rules and regulations. One of those rules states that federal contractors shall write yearly Affirmative Action Plans. LCC's last AAP is available at (https://www.lanecc.edu/sites/d.... Once data for the 2015-2016 AAP year are published, her critique about LCC: "...Ignoring all Arab Americans, Muslims, females, minorities!!," will be proven. A full blown Desk Audit by the OFCCP will unearth a raft of illegal hires going back several years.

  More problematically for LCC, moving forward, the following issues are in need of attention:
  1. According to internal sources, it appears that:
  1.1. The LCCEA continues working on the Medical Office Assistant (MOA) program matter.
  1.1.i. Solution?: The college's longitudinal efforts to do away with the program date back at least to 2006. A review of files, currently available either in HR or the archives, will more than prove this.
  1.2. The president's staff sent out an all-staff survey asking--in essence--how to sell another bond measure.
  1.2.i. Solution?: Pay the first bond completely, rather than layering another one on top of what remains unpaid.
  1.3. In the works informal and formal complaints make the current mess seem small by comparison.
  1.3.i. Solution?: Hire a president that knows what she/he is doing. Etc.